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- From: ishpanta@bluemoon.uucp (John Huenefeld)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,alt.sources
- Subject: Re: Small introspective program
- Message-ID: <kBF7y1w163w@bluemoon.uucp>
- Date: 21 Mar 91 20:41:19 GMT
-
- > Isn't there a BASIC that uses "!" as a REM.
- >
- > Thus the "shortest" basic program would be "1!"; this is 1/3 to 1/2 as short
- > your suggested "1 L." (I would have ommited the space before submitting).
- >
- > I believe it is an old Tandy basic that does this and it did not expand the "
- > to rem but left it as is; it did add a space though .....
-
-
- I also believe that the Basic on the IBM system 3x machines (34,36,38)
- also uses the ! as REM. Also when listed it would be listed as 1 ! (even
- when you just typed 1!).
-
- John Huenefeld
-