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Re^5: Pre-compiled Perl?

by choroba (Cardinal)

on Apr 05, 2017 at 12:55 UTC ( [id://1187104]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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> many BASIC dialects in the 80s already "tokenized" the source in a "parsing" phase.

On Commodore 116/16 and 64, you could even program directly in the tokens. ? was print , most others were just abbreviations like fO instead of for or oP instead of open . And when you byte-dumped the memory containing the program, it contained these instead of all the commands.

($q=q:Sq=~/;[c](.)(.)/;chr(-||-|5+lengthSq)`"S|oS2"`map{chr |+ord
}map{substrSq`S_+|`|}3E|-|`7**2-3:)=~y+S|`+$1,++print+eval$q,q,a,
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Re^6: Pre-compiled Perl?
by LanX (Saint) on Apr 05, 2017 at 14:34 UTC

You know Commodore Basic was my first programming language° (on a CBM4000), and it was very surprising to find out later that other languages/Basic dialects didn't support ? for print.

You somehow just solved a decades old miracle for me ... =D

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