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   On 01 Jan 2024 at 05:45:08 GMT, "Ahem A Rivet's Shot"    
   wrote:   
      
   > On 31 Dec 2023 22:50:01 GMT   
   > TimS  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 31 Dec 2023 at 21:36:25 GMT, "Charlie Gibbs"    
   >> wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> I remember that.  It had something to do with enclosing all keywords   
   >>> in apostrophes in place of the bold-faced type in the reference books.   
   >>> It was nasty both in appearance and typing.   
   >>   
   >> Yes, yes !! That was it. Quite why we had to do that was a mystery.   
   >   
   >     It was so that the set of keywords in the language could be   
   > extended without any risk of them ever being mistaken for variables. The   
   > idea was that keywords were picked out by "stropping" them either by CASE   
   > or with 'quotes' or by typeface (bold usually) instead of there being a set   
   > of keywords that could not be used as variable names.   
      
   Yebbut that was never going to work, given the technology of the day. I think   
   I wrote one program in it and didn't bother after that.   
      
   --   
   Tim   
      
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