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

On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:38:51 GMT,  wrote:

> 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'. 

Yeah, I know, I shouldn't complain, especially after Python or 
whatever language it is where whitespace is important.

> <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) :-)

It's SO slow... snails yell at it to speed up as they zoom past.

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

I'm using AOL right now. No idea how fast it really is -- the software 
claims 100+k but I think it's closer to 30k.

>>(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.  

DeviantArt.

> 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. :-)

Like a new kernel -- yikes again.

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