BASIC's question mark and PRINT

[Terry King]

Waaay...Back when I occasionally taught BASIC and APL, I always heard (Where?)
that the "?" meant "What Is".   Like:
?2+2  (What is 2 plus 2)
?2^16

and that this was intended to be used in "Immediate Mode".

Some BASIC I used to use (Hmmm..??) would accept the "?" in program input 
lines, like:
100 ?"The Result is ";A
but if you did LIST, it was shown as PRINT.

That WAS a while ago...

Regards, Terry King  ...On The Mediterranean in Carthage, Tunisia
terry at terryking.us