[Info-vax] C... the only winning move is not to play...

[Paul Sture]

On 2014-02-11, David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
> VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>
> > It would all have been in
>> Macro if it were up to me but the customer said they can only read C.
>>
>
> They lie!  I submit that anyone can read BASIC, but I do recall some
> almost successful instances of trying to make it unreadable.
>
> Throughtout this whole thread I've seen in my head:
>
> A$ = B$ + C$ + D$ + E$ + F$ + G$ + H$ + I$ + J$ + K$ + L$ + ....
>
> Basic, a language that knows how to work with strings ....
>
> And no, I don't normally declare my variables ....

There are times when BASIC dynamic strings carry too much of an overhead
though.  I distinctly recall someone here about a decade ago (Shane Smith?)
describing how he had got much improved performance by massaging some BASIC
to use static strings rather than dynamic ones.

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Paul Sture