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To this day, I find myself deleting comments or whitespace under some misguided pavlovian notion that my code will run faster.

Ouch!

btw, I think "fill the screen with @'s" must be the "Hello, world!" of Commodore machine-language programming. (Back when you could call it "ML" and not get it confused with a functional programming language, too.)




That's funny, I always get confused and disappointed when hearing/reading people talk about "ML" only to realize they're talking about "machine learning" and not Milner's ML ... I hadn't thought there might be yet another overloaded definition.


Actually it shouldn't matter even for BASIC

More 'advanced' versions transform BASIC into bytecode that's interpreted, stripping all the comments

But yeah, for the early systems...




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