Typography and BASIC
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This means, of course, that using a comma instead of a semicolon---changing just a single character in 10 Print---produces a radically different design, more hieroglyphic than labyrinth: | This means, of course, that using a comma instead of a semicolon---changing just a single character in 10 Print---produces a radically different design, more hieroglyphic than labyrinth: | ||
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Someone in the eighties might have easily discovered this variation on his/her own, monkeying around with the program. But without knowing about the original BASIC's reliance upon teletype printers for output (an output, furthermore, that was expected to be columns of numbers), the reason for the variation between comma and semicolon would be obscure, if not seemingly utterly arbitrary. | Someone in the eighties might have easily discovered this variation on his/her own, monkeying around with the program. But without knowing about the original BASIC's reliance upon teletype printers for output (an output, furthermore, that was expected to be columns of numbers), the reason for the variation between comma and semicolon would be obscure, if not seemingly utterly arbitrary. | ||
