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#ABasiC program size

    24-Nov-85 18:27:00
Fm: Gary Farmaner [CBMNET] 76703,3050
To: Dick Darling 75635,756
Hi Dick, I agree completely, not tokenizing a program makes very little sense. Tokens allow program execution to be faster, while having smaller program size. I can't undestand why anyone would write an interpreter that has to parse through a long, full length list of commands. Even a 2 byte token system (which I assume would be needed), would increase efficiency grreatly. MicroSoft Basic???? Anyone know whether it tokenizes?