Christian Gollwitzer wrote:
GW-BASIC was a weak language, but two significant characters is definitely too few. I think it was eight.
That may have been true for MS-DOS era BASICS. If you have a whopping 640KB for your program, then it doesn't matter so much. The 8-bit era was much more constrained. With only 48KB (or less, depending on how fancy a graphics mode you wanted to use) people didn't like to use any more chars than they strictly needed! -- Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
