The sad story of an adorable little program and its looming demise. Lately, we’ve seen a number of disturbing variants of the famous “10 PRINT” program for Commodore BASIC (and, with a slight modification, for any machine running BASIC). These are all about “speed”, i.e. runtime performance, but, as we’re going to argue, they are all missing the point. Even worse, they are apt to ruin it. Entirely. Continue reading…
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