[Info-vax] OpenVMS Development Annoyances
johnson.eric at gmail.com
johnson.eric at gmail.com
Tue Apr 9 09:44:37 EDT 2019
On Tuesday, April 9, 2019 at 7:24:26 AM UTC-4, johnwa... at yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> APPLE, IIRC, ROUND ABOUT THAT TIME HAD A FLAVOUR OF BASIC WHERE
> VARIABLE NAMES WERE ONE LETTER, AND EARLIER LETTERS WERE FASTER (?).
You are thinking of Applesoft BASIC.
Only the first two letters of a variable name were significant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applesoft_BASIC#Limitations
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