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Many BASICs of that era were limited to two significant characters for variable names, which made the code even less readable. There were some attempts at creat
by Mountain_Skies 4y ago
Many BASICs of that era were limited to two significant characters for variable names, which made the code even less readable. There were some attempts at creating preprocessors that would take more readable code and turn it into something the interpreter could use, but at that point, you might as well go all the way with using a compiled language.
- musicale 4y agoDartmouth BASIC was compiled yet still had limited variable names for simplicity.
- WalterBright 4y agoMy game Empire started in BASIC, and was then ported to FORTRAN. You can still see the BASIC legacy in the code in the variable names like "Z6".
- beej71 4y ago"My game Empire", he says offhandedly. :) Thanks for that--I fired it up about a year ago. Still fun!
- WalterBright 4y agoI keep thinking I should upgrade its primitive neural network computer strategy with a modern one. I bet it would kick ass!