Just for fun, I keyed in and ran the "Ahl Benchmark" on a few "boots-to-BASIC" systems that I still have setup:
Exploring Project Ahl in 2024 — voidstar <https://voidstar.blog/exploring-project-ahl-in-2024/> https://voidstar.blog/exploring-project-ahl-in-2024/ On Wed, May 1, 2024 at 5:58 PM Fred Cisin via cctalk <[email protected]> wrote: > I remember that one of the changes that "street" BASICs made was to make > the keyword "LET" be optional. > Thus, instead of writing > LET X = 3 > you could write > X = 3 > > unfortunately, that further confused the issue of ASSIGNMENT versus > EQUALITY, > and many beginners tried to write > 3 = X > while they certainly would not have tried to write > LET 3 = X > > > Sorry, but off the top of my head, I can't recall the many other > differences. > > -- > Grumpy Ol' Fred [email protected] >
