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> All three passes were written largely in Applesoft Wouldn't this explain it? But it seems odd that they wouldn't at least save a LUT relating the shortened and expanded variable name.
> But it seems odd that they wouldn't at least save a LUT relating the shortened and expanded variable name. BASIC implementations based on Microsoft BASIC store tokenized program lines. A keyword takes 1 byte. Comments, variable names, spaces between tokens, etc take up memory on a character-by-character basis. I didn't use Apple BASIC, but I spent too much time on various flavors of Commodore BASIC which shared thi…
Sure, I meant saving that LUT somewhere else for future reference