Infocom on PDP-11

[Gooijen H]

No, I can not remember those quotes either.
Must have been something else, Paul.
For what I remember, BEATHE looked a bit like PASCAL; all the
statements ended with a semicolon (;).
Admitted, memories are vague after 30 years not using BEATHE :~)
but I would certainly remember something as idiot as a quote for
every letter of a reserved word of the language.

- Henk, PA8PDP.


On Wed, 11 May 2005, Paul Koning wrote:

> I only used BEATHE briefly; my recollection is that it used quotes to
> mark ALGOL keywords rather than reserved words, i.e.,
>      'i'f i=1 't'h'e'n ...
> instead of
> 	if i=1 then ...
>
> which added no real value but did use up a lot more cards and
> finger-power...

You have GOT to be kidding.  Who's the genius that came up with that
scheme?

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