XPost: alt.lang.basic   
   From: steve.foley@DELETE.att.net   
      
   Back when I was programming an MAI/Basic 4, everything was tokenized.   
      
   You could type in   
      
   10FORI=1TO10   
   10 FOR I = 1 TO 10   
   10     FOR I = 1TO10   
      
   or anything else you could think of. When you typed 'list' you would get   
      
   0010 FOR I=1 TO 10   
      
   I remember someone watching over my shoulder while I was writing code. They   
   couldn't believe the mess on the screen, because I never used the spacebar.   
   There was absolutely no point.   
      
      
      
   "Daniel Hamilton"  wrote in message   
   news:w5_kf.30013$Ox.20613@tornado.texas.rr.com...   
   > Phred wrote:   
   > > One problem with translating to GWBASIC, for example, is that Tandy   
   > > BASIC programs could be written without spaces between variables and   
   > > key words etc.  So a line such as 10 FORI=1TO10 would be legal.   
   > >   
   > > Not saying that *everyone* did this, but saving 20% of typing effort   
   > > was worth it to those of us who had never learnt to type. :-)   
   > > And after doing it for awhile, it was quite easy to read those   
   > > programs!  [Remember the two-line "games" etc. published in mags such   
   > > as _80 Micro_ at the time? :-)]   
   >   
   > Not meaning to be disrespectful, or even rude, but since I'm a software   
   > developer by trade I take special exception to this: :)   
   >   
   > 10 FORI=1TO10   
   >   
   > That is just evil.  Whoever is so lazy as to do this deserves whatever   
   > comes to them!  How hard is it to press a space bar?  Why does pressing   
   > the space bar even require knowing anything about how to type?  Whoever   
   > the crazy programmer was that made Tandy BASIC accept such code should   
   > be hog-tied! *I'm sure it had something to do with memory constraint   
   > right?* :)   
   >   
   > --Daniel   
      
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