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    9 months ago

    variables don’t make it to the compiled binary tho, except debug symbols of course if have those enabled (but deploying them to an embeeded system is a terrible idea, they can remain on the host system)

    oh you mean on not for

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      Yeah for interpreted BASIC.

      But even after moving to writing assembly language on a separate PC devkit there was still the habit of using short names.

      I think that some assemblers had limits on name size.