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Re: Crunchie v0.71 beta released

From Steve Drain <steve@kappa.me.uk>
Newsgroups comp.sys.acorn.programmer
Subject Re: Crunchie v0.71 beta released
Date 2019-01-02 10:15 +0000
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Dave Symes wrote:
> Steve Drain wrote:
>> Crunchie is a crunching utility for BASIC files written in BASIC.
> Why?

Because you can? For me it was primarily a plaything at first. ;-)

> I could understand back in the days, with small amounts of RAM and small
> disk storage available...

Memory saving is not a motivation. A relatively small but significant 
speed gain might be.

Obfuscation of programs is, not necessarily for secrecy, but to prevent 
users modifying programs and causing the maintainer problems when it all 
goes wrong. The plain source might also be supplied for public programs, 
but the crunching fixes a working version.

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Re: Crunchie v0.71 beta released Dave Symes <dave@triffid.co.uk> - 2019-01-02 07:09 +0000
  Re: Crunchie v0.71 beta released Steve Drain <steve@kappa.me.uk> - 2019-01-02 10:15 +0000
    Re: Crunchie v0.71 beta released DavidW1975 <dwilliams64@hotmail.com> - 2019-01-02 03:38 -0800
      Re: Crunchie v0.71 beta released Steve Drain <steve@kappa.me.uk> - 2019-01-02 15:16 +0000
    Re: Crunchie v0.71 beta released druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2019-01-02 16:21 +0000

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