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Ha, that takes me back. I got started on Commodore BASIC on an 8K PET. Your program had to share memory with the source code, so you didn't waste bytes on spa
by jmull 9y ago
Ha, that takes me back.
I got started on Commodore BASIC on an 8K PET.
Your program had to share memory with the source code, so you didn't waste bytes on spaces! (You also used single character variable names as much as possible and jammed as many statements on a line as possible since the overhead per line was a few bytes.)
As a result I can still read very dense code, but I'm reformed and write code that uses white space to avoid an overly busy screen, suggest coupling in the underlying logic, aligns comments, etc.