olin_piclist@embedinc.com (Olin Lathrop) wrote:
> Denny Esterline wrote:
> > But the worst part, the part they should be killed for, they
> > were running out of code space - so they DELETED THE COMMENTS!!!
> 
> ROFL!  I've heard some pretty creative excuses for lack of comments, but
> that's a new one on me.

That used to be a trick used with very early tape-based microcomputer
BASIC interpreters, which kept the entire program -- tokenized source
along with comments -- in main memory. Deleting comments could free up
significant amounts of space for additional code tokens.

AFAIK, this technique never applied to any other language, and it faded
away once disk-based systems became common.

-- Dave Tweed
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