On: The Applesoft Compiler (TASC): We have the source code, in a sense

[simonh]

You’d have thought the author would have kept a lookup table of the full variable names. Maybe they did, but that was lost.

[progre → simonh]

I searched but I couldn't find out who this author is/was. Lines like "The author of TASC was very proud of this optimization." makes me think that Raymond Chen is the author, is this right?

[nevster → progre]

Back of the manual states: Microsoft TASC was developed by James Peck and Michael T Howard

[progre → nevster]

The post states that it was developed by a single guy though.

[simonh → progre]

It's possible someone else worked on it later.