▲ | Cockbrand 3 days ago | |
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
and a LIST command would yield
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. |