[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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