Re: Interpreter for old basic programs from the line number era

On Fri, 7 Mar 2008 17:12:49 +0000 (UTC), "Auric__"
<not.my.real@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>On Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:05:46 GMT,  wrote:
>
<snip>
>> The log file of a very small example program:
>>
>>   100 PRINT "Hello, world!"
>>   105 IF I=0THEN 107ELSE 110
>>   107 IF I=1THEN 110ELSE 110
>>   110 INPUT "Press return to continue",a$
>
>Wow. Hard to believe that the lack of spaces in 105 and 107 are valid 
>(or even accepted). Yikes. (I realize that isn't something you came up 
>with -- it works under QBASIC. Yikes yikes yikes.)

Not hard to believe at all.  :-)  The only time a space is reallt
needed in basic is to seperate 2 tokens that can't otherwise be
identified.  For example on line 105:
The space between 'IF' & 'I' is needed because htat would be seen as
'IFI'.  
No space is needed between '0' & 'THEN' because a number can not
contain a 'T'.

If the word following a number started with a 'e' or 'd' then a space
is probably required because floating point numbers can contain a 'd'
or 'e'. 

<snip>
>>> ... (I'm not going to d/l it to find out -- I'm on v-e-e-e-e-e-r-y
>>> slow dial-up and most downloads are painful.)

How slow is it?  :-)    (shades of Johnny Carson) :-)

I have been on 64k ISDN for most of the last 15 years or so.  

<snip>
>
>Compiling is no problem, since I run Linux at home anyway. (I prefer 
>to compile from source, even when a binary is available.) My problem 
>is always with the download size. Always always always. (Not just your 
>stuff.) I was spoiled by high speed, which I don't have now (and won't 
>due to financial issues), and downloading *anything* on dial-up is 
>long and tedious. (I even browse the web with images turned off -- not 
>because I don't want to see them (I usually do) but because they take 
>too long to transfer.)
Yes.  It seems to me, that web page designers (and those who write web
page design software) assume that everyone has a multi-gigabit
connection.  

I have seen web pages that take in excess of 10 minutes to load.  I
usually get bored, and close the page.

>(FYI, took a bit over 6 minutes to d/l your 964 kib file.)
6 minutes is nothing.  
I tend to get annoyed with 6 hour downloads. :-)
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