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>> It defies belief that anybody could disagree
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> Certainly the primitive versions of the language were pretty primitive.
> But then, people were doing primitive things. How much of a namespace do
> you need when your computer only has 4K of RAM?
Also, even after machines got faster and bigger, there were still benefits
of a small primitive language. I remember when Acorn released the first CPU
with on-board cache, suddenly the entire BASIC interpreter could fit in the
cache - which meant BASIC became a very fast (for an interpreted language).
I assume more complex interpreted languages couldn't manage this.
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