Small introspective program

[steele at en.ecn.purdue.edu]

In article <1991Mar13.032422.9438 at cavebbs.gen.nz> clear at cavebbs.gen.nz (Charlie Lear) writes:
>In article <1991Mar12.050929.2870 at research.canon.oz.au> andy at research.canon.oz.au (Andy Newman) writes:
>>The smaller the better! In many interpreted BASIC's of years ago you could do:
>>	1 LIST
>>Which when RUN would produce:
>>	1 LIST
>>(Using a single digit line number to make it as small as possible).
>
>Sorry, your entry is disqualified through being too large. REAL BASICs used
>to be able to tokenise, and the winner is:
>	1 L.
>which when run would produce
> 	1 L.
>
>Lets see you do THAT in C!
>

You sure?  If the BASIC is tokenized, then L. will be expanded to LIST
in the source code listing, so that you'd get
	1 LIST
when run.  I have to admit, my only experience with tokenized basics is
the old 8-bit Ataris; do other basics leave the abbreviation?

Rich

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