Small introspective program
John Huenefeld
ishpanta at bluemoon.uucp
Fri Mar 22 06:41:19 AEST 1991
> 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
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