>>> That last sentence is a bit Spanish (8-)#    
>> It is very strange. Swear that I am Spanish. ;)  
> I am glad you saw the joke.  It is hard translating literally into
> another language - it rarely works.
> I love the French restaurant who 'helpfully' translated 'Mousse
> chocolat' into "Chocolate foam".
> In England we use the French word.

Nobody expects the /Spanish/ Inquisition ;)

>> What was the line limit? What would be an acceptable number?   
> I forget exactly - maybe 60 only.
> Mind you the winner took full advantage of very very long DATA
> statements, so was bending the rules.
> He had no machine code though I think. He just used these data
> statements to feed values into recursive turtle graphics commands -
> very cunning.
> Ah I remember - Dragon was the winner and the download (dragon_zip) is
> available in files area #1 on my BBS (+44 1442 828255).
> It took for ever to draw on an unexpanded QL - which most were then.
> .... and I see it was a QL User competition.
>
> Maybe a better way is to limit the code size, and require the
> assembler is entirely within the basic program, using data statements.
> These could be POKEd into the RESPR space.  This would then limit what
> machine code programmers could get up to.
>
> I just feel that if you don't impose any code size limits, you are
> making it too easy.

Thanks for these clarifications. I see very positive limit to 60 lines,
and for this competition of screens is not allowed machine code.

I will communicate this to Radastan. Compete it!

Regards,

Javier Guerra (badaman)
http://sinclairql.es

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