Similar, and maybe more related to the article's topic: Commodore BASIC also saved the commands as tokens, so you could enter abbreviated commands like 10 ?

Similar, and maybe more related to the article's topic: Commodore BASIC also saved the commands as tokens, so you could enter abbreviated commands like 10 ? "Hello" 20 gO 10 and a LIST command would yield 10 print "Hello" 20 goto 10 So saving commands as tokens in memory and formatting them on output was somewhat common back then. The speccy was more advanced in terms of this (as mentioned in the parent comment), and it had the better BASIC for sure.