From: muta...@gmail.com   
      
   I sometimes wondered how they managed to write a   
   BASIC interpreter in such a small amount of memory.   
      
   I saw this on Quora today:   
      
   Living without abstraction (back in the days of machine language or 8080   
   BASIC) was challenging. You wrote in the language of the computer; “A$ = B$   
   + C$” and GOSUB 3505   
      
      
   Which might partly explain it.   
      
   BFN. Paul.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)