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As far as I remember, in Algol 68 the physical representation of the program was separated from the syntax. So, in theory one should have been able to write
by Koshkin 4y ago
As far as I remember, in Algol 68 the physical representation of the program was separated from the syntax. So, in theory one should have been able to write
hacer
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recah
- dspillett 4y agoIn memory BBC BASIC was tokenised so for instance PRINT was stored as just the byte 0xF1, so you could write a program lister that used other language's words (I remember at least one of those existing) and it would be similarly easy to go the other way too.
- waqf 4y agoIn fact this was used in the 100% official localisation of BBC BASIC … into American. The US edition of BBC BASIC 3 would print "COLOR" instead of the obviously correct keyword "COLOUR".