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Six characters! Luxury. I worked on a system where we only had five.
by me2i81 11y ago
Six characters! Luxury. I worked on a system where we only had five.
- rwallace 11y agoFive characters! Luxury. I learned to program on a system where we only had two. (Not joking: on the Commodore eight bit machines, only the first two characters of variable names were significant.)
- cecilpl 11y agoApplesoft BASIC (for the Apple ][e) was like this too.
- StillBored 11y agoYes, because both apple and commodore license microsoft basic as the core of their basic implementations.
- mark-r 11y agoI learned to program on a BASIC system that had only one. Although strings were suffixed with $, so you could have both A and A$. Did I also mention that only upper case was available?
- nocman 11y agoWow, I'd actually forgotten that. I can still see that old VIC-20: 3583 BYTES FREE READY.
- niklasni1 11y agoIn MUMPS, only the first two characters of function names are significant.