GOTOphobia Considered Harmful (In C)

Re:GOTOphobia Considered Harmful (In C) by jamiek88 on Sunday February 26, 2023 @09:00PM (#34952084)

Wasting RAM on REM’s was just rookie stuff.

I remember chasing bytes with short variable names, abbreviated print statements, reducing spaces as much as possible etc.

I had like 28k to play with and I was 14 years old!

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Re:GOTOphobia Considered Harmful (In C) by worthless-trash on Monday February 27, 2023 @12:54AM (#34953496)

And we liked it !

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Re:GOTOphobia Considered Harmful (In C) by kbelder on Monday February 27, 2023 @06:02PM (#34963246)

I remember in Commodore basic, finding that a period by itself ('.') was parsed as zero, but was actually slightly faster than using zero, and saved a byte every time it was used. In other words, you could write:

    10 for i = . to 6.28 step 0.1:next

and it would be slightly faster and smaller than

    10 for i = 0 to 6.28 step 0.1:next

Made for some ugly inner loops, but you gotta do what you gotta do. For that matter, we certainly would have removed some of those extra spaces as well. Bytes mattered and whitespace slowed you down.

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