BASIC is a uniquely useful language on machines with extremely limited RAM. It was designed to take up as little program space as possible even when compared w

BASIC is a uniquely useful language on machines with extremely limited RAM. It was designed to take up as little program space as possible even when compared with machine language. On home computers, each BASIC keyword is tokenized into a single byte. I have a computer with only 3kb of RAM but has a comparatively large amount of ROM to support a complete BASIC. With BASIC you can create useful programs that would otherwise be impossible to fit into RAM. This has given me a newfound respect for the language.