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Re: And this is what is called a SPANK

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glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:
> In comp.lang.java.programmer Nadegda <nad318b404@gmail.invalid> wrote:
> (snip, someone wrote)
> 
>>>Wow, even the name is pointlessly abbreviated to be missing one vowel. 
>>>Does it date back to when machines had a few KB of core and even one 
>>>byte of extra computer code could be a storage problem?
> 
>>Of course not. Not that that would have been an excuse even so. The old 
>>Commodore VIC-20 had a BASIC interpreter and that language had full, 
>>readable keywords like PRINT rather than abbreviated garbage like, say, 
>>PRN. Commodore employed a clever trick: BASIC programs were stored (on 
>>disk and in memory) *compressed*, with all of the common keywords 
>>replaced with graphics characters with the high bit set. 
> 
> The HP TSB2000 (Time Shared BASIC) systems did that, too.
> 
> Not only that, it would refuse to allow you to enter a statement
> that didn't pass some syntax checks. 
> 
> Many of the microcomputer BASIC interpreters were based on 
> the ones from Microsoft, but even if not, the tokenizing compression
> was well known by then. 
> 
> Not only does it save memory, but the interpreter runs a lot faster!
> The tokenizing is done only once, not each time the statement
> is executed.
> 

You can make BASIC programs run lots faster if you delete comments and 
replace the GOSUBes with GOTOes

-- 
Grizzly H.

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Re: And this is what is called a SPANK "CastAlone " <ca@ca.org.example> - 2012-07-15 21:53 -0400
  Re: And this is what is called a SPANK Nadegda <nad318b404@gmail.invalid> - 2012-07-16 03:04 +0000
  Re: And this is what is called a SPANK ent0loma <ent.0_l0m-4@gmail.com> - 2012-07-16 02:08 -0400
    Re: And this is what is called a SPANK Nadegda <nad318b404@gmail.invalid> - 2012-07-16 07:27 +0000
      Re: And this is what is called a SPANK kensi <kensi_kensington@zoonoses.de> - 2012-07-16 13:07 -0400
        Re: And this is what is called a SPANK Nadegda <nad318b404@gmail.invalid> - 2012-07-16 22:06 +0000
          Re: And this is what is called a SPANK kensi <kensi_kensington@zoonoses.de> - 2012-07-17 15:57 -0400
            Re: And this is what is called a SPANK Nadegda <nad318b404@gmail.invalid> - 2012-07-17 21:40 +0000
              Re: And this is what is called a SPANK kensi <kensi_kensington@zoonoses.de> - 2012-07-18 16:44 -0400
                Re: And this is what is called a SPANK Nadegda <nad318b404@gmail.invalid> - 2012-07-19 01:11 +0000
                Re: And this is what is called a SPANK Nadegda <nad318b404@gmail.invalid> - 2012-07-19 03:18 +0000
                Re: And this is what is called a SPANK kensi <kensi_kensington@zoonoses.de> - 2012-07-19 16:06 -0400
                Re: And this is what is called a SPANK Nadegda <nad318b404@gmail.invalid> - 2012-07-19 23:55 +0000
                Re: And this is what is called a SPANK kensi <kensi_kensington@zoonoses.de> - 2012-07-19 20:36 -0400
                Re: And this is what is called a SPANK Nadegda <nad318b404@gmail.invalid> - 2012-07-20 01:26 +0000
                Re: And this is what is called a SPANK kensi <kensi_kensington@zoonoses.de> - 2012-07-19 23:59 -0400
                Re: And this is what is called a SPANK Nadegda <nad318b404@gmail.invalid> - 2012-07-20 04:44 +0000
                Re: And this is what is called a SPANK "%" <persent@gmail.com> - 2012-07-19 21:55 -0700
                Re: And this is what is called a SPANK kensi <kensi_kensington@zoonoses.de> - 2012-07-20 03:09 -0400
                Re: And this is what is called a SPANK [Tor] Phoenix <tahosa@usa.TAKETHISOUT.net> - 2012-07-20 04:30 +0000
                Re: And this is what is called a SPANK kensi <kensi_kensington@zoonoses.de> - 2012-07-20 00:38 -0400
                Re: And this is what is called a SPANK glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2012-07-20 04:58 +0000
                Re: And this is what is called a SPANK Checkmate <LunaticFringe@The.Edge> - 2012-07-19 22:50 -0700
                Re: And this is what is called a SPANK Nadegda <nad318b404@gmail.invalid> - 2012-07-20 05:55 +0000
                Re: And this is what is called a SPANK mixed nuts <melopsitticus@undulatus.budgie> - 2012-07-20 08:17 -0400
                Re: And this is what is called a SPANK Checkmate <LunaticFringe@The.Edge> - 2012-07-20 10:00 -0700

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