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On the Commodore 64 the OS was a REPL and ? was shorthand for PRINT, therefore you could type `? 2+2` and you would get the result printed. This felt so intuit
by sorbits 6y ago
On the Commodore 64 the OS was a REPL and ? was shorthand for PRINT, therefore you could type `? 2+2` and you would get the result printed.
This felt so intuitive to me that ever since, I’ve ensured my machines had ? do calculations in the shell (by aliasing it to whatever could do math).