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With hindsight he should have left the comments/variable names and written a preprocessor to remove before compiling.
by ed_elliott_asc 3y ago
With hindsight he should have left the comments/variable names and written a preprocessor to remove before compiling.
- Mountain_Skies 3y agoAbsolutely but if he was relatively inexperienced, which is somewhat likely for a college student, he may have fallen victim to believing that he'd remember it all when he came back to it. Afterall, it's all fresh in his mind and all makes sense when he's making the decision to strip all of that out instead of adding the preprocessing step. After getting burnt a time or two, one learns to ignore the current state of mind and realize things will be very different a year later.
- joezydeco 3y agoTASC was written in AppleSoft. And AppleSoft was an interpreted language, no compiler. Variable names were stored uncompressed, so shorter names took up less space.
- ed_elliott_asc 3y agoPreprocess and then execute the processed code then I guess
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