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Why is this desirable? It saves maybe half a dozen keystrokes in exchange for less readable and thus less maintainable code.
by Mountain_Skies 6y ago
Why is this desirable? It saves maybe half a dozen keystrokes in exchange for less readable and thus less maintainable code.
- jandrese 6y agoOn the 2600 if it saved you a byte or two it was a big win. Remember your program had to fit in 64 bytes of memory. Not kilobytes, single bytes. And your numbers are BCD encoded, so they're extra inefficient.
- Technically 6y agoIf expressing a conditional costs you more than 1/64 of your storage I'd say the storage is pretty useless for storing code.
- jandrese 6y agoNobody has ever accused Atari Basic of being good.