Yeah, early BASICs tended to let you skip the spaces, and in fact it sometimes did have a measurable effect on parsing/execution speed. And of course on file si

Yeah, early BASICs tended to let you skip the spaces, and in fact it sometimes did have a measurable effect on parsing/execution speed. And of course on file size too… Additionally, at least C64 Basic had two-character shorthands for all keywords.