On 2013-12-21 11:19, Christian Gollwitzer wrote: > GW-BASIC was a weak language, but two significant characters is > definitely too few. I think it was eight. Never used QuickBasic, I > went Turbo Pascal instead, which had 32 significant characters.
In know that my first BASIC, Applesoft BASIC had the 2-character names, and you had to load Integer Basic (with Ints in addition to the standard Floats used in the BASIC provided by the ROM, a strange choice). So moving to Turbo Pascal (started with a 3.x series version, but 6.x was a major upgrade) gave me more breathing-room and data-types than I know what to do with :-) Then there's the 6502 assembly on that Apple with its 2 user-facing registers (plus the Instruction Pointer and Stack Pointer), so I guess you could say that it has 1-bit variable names ;-) -tkc -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
