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Gary: Yes, MS tokenizes — Microsoft wrote the BASICs in most every micro around (Apple, IBM, C-64, TI…) and they all tokenize (which is why, say, MS-BASIC files have to be explicitly saved with an ASCII option to be edited externally from BASIC). I still think that ABasiC tokenizes, it just saves the tokens in parallel with the ASCII source. This has its advantages. Personally, I've found ABasiC (on some math) to run very favorably against the tokenized PC-BASIC…. ^Kx