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minus-squarebandwidthcrisis@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·3 months agoLeaning to program on 8-bit machines with 8k of RAM means that even today I abbreviate names. Plus it was accepted wisdom that shorter variable names were faster for the BASIC interpreter.
minus-squarevoxel@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-23 months agovariables don’t make it to the compiled binary tho, except debug symbols of course if have those enabled (but deploying them to an embeeded system is a terrible idea, they can remain on the host system) oh you mean on not for
minus-squarebandwidthcrisis@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoYeah for interpreted BASIC. But even after moving to writing assembly language on a separate PC devkit there was still the habit of using short names. I think that some assemblers had limits on name size.
Leaning to program on 8-bit machines with 8k of RAM means that even today I abbreviate names.
Plus it was accepted wisdom that shorter variable names were faster for the BASIC interpreter.
variables don’t make it to the compiled binary tho, except debug symbols of course if have those enabled (but deploying them to an embeeded system is a terrible idea, they can remain on the host system)oh you mean on not for
Yeah for interpreted BASIC.
But even after moving to writing assembly language on a separate PC devkit there was still the habit of using short names.
I think that some assemblers had limits on name size.