XPost: alt.lang.basic   
   From: nobody@nowhere.com   
      
   "Daniel Hamilton"  wrote in message   
   news:w5_kf.30013$Ox.20613@tornado.texas.rr.com...   
      
   > 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?*   
   > :)   
      
   Tell Bill Gates. With a 2 Mhz processor you did everything you could to max   
   the speed of computation. I remember calculating moon rise and set times for   
   a whole year and printing the answers out on an ex-railways teletype at 75   
   baud. It took most of a day to do it and it sounded like jackhammering   
   through cement. And then there was the 4K or ram.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)