Tim Shoppa [21.01.2019 23:51]: > As to comments that seem to have shrunk, look at for example the > shrinkage of the original comment block from Mayfield's 1972 HP program > library version of STAR TREK, to the 1973 RSTS SPACWR version in the Ahl > collection. With most vintage BASIC interpreters there was a runtime > penalty to putting large comment blocks at the start of your program - > maybe the HP 3000 BASIC was a true compiler?
I learned programming on such a machine, around 1983. We started with BASIC, then got on to COBOL, Pascal and some Fortran. There were both an interpreter and a compiler for HP3000 BASIC. -- Hilsen Harald _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
