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Reminds me of ZX81's BASIC: you didn't type keywords. There was a key for each one on the specialized keyboard. The editor was context-sensitive - in other word
by hyperthesis 3y ago
Reminds me of ZX81's BASIC: you didn't type keywords. There was a key for each one on the specialized keyboard. The editor was context-sensitive - in other words, a parser-driven lexical analyzer was you. At the time, it seemed a little magical to me that it knew whether you wanted to type a word/number versus a keyword, and what kind of keyword (but really, the pedagogically relevant aspect was that I knew).
BTW Significant to the ZX81 was the memory saved by storing tokens instead of their text representation. Yes. It had 1k RAM kids - including display memory (no separate GPU). This parsing when entered would also make runtime faster.