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@DrewNaylor@mastodon.online

2026-08-07 07:09 UTC

I think I figured out why BASIC used line numbers ending in 0: it's really easy to put them in an array if you can guarantee that each line number always ends with a 0 (just need to add 1 if the array is 0-indexed). #BASIC

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  • @brianna@gts.tassaron.com 2026-08-07 17:25

    @DrewNaylor@mastodon.online my casual assumption has always been that they did that just in case they wanted to add 9 more lines between each one later :p

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