SATURN BASIC for HP-48G/G+/GX, HP-49G and HP-49G+/50G

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(05-06-2015 01:26 PM)Claudio L. Wrote:  He also deserves credit not just for a relatively fast implementation

Giving that it is an interpreter it couldn't go faster without overcomplicating the tokenizer and using much more memory, and/or without removing various internal checks (free memory, for example) thus reducing stability.

(05-06-2015 01:26 PM)Claudio L. Wrote:  but for the shortest solution of all: only 5 lines of code!
Talk about code compactness.

I could even make it 4-liner because lines 3 and 4 can be concatenated. But this would be overkill.

The size of this program is 263 bytes. Without display statements at the end it is 207 bytes. And if we short the procedure name to 1 letter it is 197 bytes. I think this is really great size/speed ratio for a high-level interpreter.