Timeline for When and why was the question mark chosen to abbreviate PRINT?
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| Aug 15, 2023 at 11:47 | comment | added | Raffzahn | @tofro he footnote is about many other notable BASIC being influenced by TSW. Guilty for adding background info to help position it's influence. I do believe that answers just giving an address to poke are not worth to be written. | |
| Aug 15, 2023 at 11:43 | comment | added | tofro | The whole question is about the ? shortcut for PRINT. I find it odd to mention the ZX here, because it doesn't support the premise of the question. Nothing wrong here, just odd. | |
| Aug 15, 2023 at 11:34 | comment | added | Raffzahn | @tofro ? Huh? The footnote is about features adapted, namely indexing of strings. Is this not true? | |
| Aug 15, 2023 at 11:32 | history | edited | Raffzahn | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Questionmark was left out on purpose to avoide confusion with it being the command.
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| Aug 15, 2023 at 7:24 | history | edited | Toby Speight | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 15, 2023 at 7:09 | comment | added | tofro | It's a bit odd to mention Sinclair BASIC in this context as it doesn't support the ? shortcut. | |
| Aug 14, 2023 at 22:50 | history | edited | Raffzahn | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 13, 2023 at 1:31 | comment | added | Maury Markowitz | Well I only checked due to a question on another forum, and I too expected it to be HP. Since MS is essentially BASIC-PLUS I checked that, and then SUPER BASIC from Tymshare. Neither had it. It may indeed be an MS invention, but I'm still looking. | |
| Aug 12, 2023 at 20:50 | comment | added | Raffzahn | @MauryMarkowitz Interesting. I would have put it back here with the first interactive one. Dartmouth wasn't one. I guess that shortcut didn't work and I have to dig thru some more manuals. Thanks for checking. | |
| Aug 12, 2023 at 18:09 | comment | added | Maury Markowitz | Looking in the 1975 version of the HP BASIC manual, I do not see the ? as a short form for PRINT noted: bitsavers.org/pdf/hp/2000TSB/22687-90001_AccessBasic9-75.pdf I looked in the V4 Dartmouth, HP, Wang, SUPER BASIC and BASIC-PLUS manuals and none of them list it. | |
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| Apr 19, 2022 at 17:55 | comment | added | Raffzahn | @masterX244 Thx. | |
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| Apr 19, 2022 at 13:15 | comment | added | masterX244 | small fyi: you got a typo in footnote 1 where you wrote sting instead of string. Can't edit though due to the 6-char limit | |
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| Apr 18, 2022 at 12:36 | comment | added | dave | Futhermore, in DTSS on the original hardware, you edited in the (language-independent) front-end machine, and BASIC jobs were compiled and run on the mainframe. | |
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| Apr 18, 2022 at 9:07 | history | answered | Raffzahn | CC BY-SA 4.0 |