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From: Bob Eager <news0002@eager.cx>
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Subject: Re: BASIC is 50
Date: 1 May 2014 21:35:12 GMT
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On Thu, 01 May 2014 16:43:18 +0300, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:

> Rich <rich@example.com>:
> 
>>> > 10 LET X=100 20 PRINT $X
>>
>>> What's that $ sign doing there? I thought it was a mistake but no one
>>> else mentioned it.
>>
>> It's probably a mistake. It has been 25+ years since I last wrote a
>> line of basic, the $ is likely my Perl, Tcl, and Bash/sh experience
>> leaking over.
> 
> Well, Basic had:
> 
>    X% (integer)
>    X! (float)
>    X  (float as well)
>    X# (double)
>    X$ (string)
> 
> That probably leaked over to Perl.

Kemeny and Kurtz BASIC didn't.


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