4 May
2024
4 May
'24
9:03 a.m.
Just for fun, I keyed in and ran the "Ahl Benchmark" on a few
"boots-to-BASIC" systems that I still have setup:
Exploring Project Ahl in 2024 — voidstar
<https://voidstar.blog/exploring-project-ahl-in-2024/>
https://voidstar.blog/exploring-project-ahl-in-2024/
On Wed, May 1, 2024 at 5:58 PM Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
I remember that one of the changes that
"street" BASICs made was to make
the keyword "LET" be optional.
Thus, instead of writing
LET X = 3
you could write
X = 3
unfortunately, that further confused the issue of ASSIGNMENT versus
EQUALITY,
and many beginners tried to write
3 = X
while they certainly would not have tried to write
LET 3 = X
Sorry, but off the top of my head, I can't recall the many other
differences.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com