Harry Potter wrote:
> On Jan 31, 11:47 am, lyricalnanoha
>  wrote:
>> On Sat, 31 Jan 2009, Ammammata wrote:
>>> hello (this is my first post on this ng)
>>> several years ago... it was 1980-something, I ran on the apple
(and later on
>>> other computers) some nice one-line programs, written in
basic, typically
>>> games
>>> the line was of course quite long, with several statements
>>> anyone remember this?
>> The disk "Silicon Salad" has a slew of two-liners...
>>
>> -uso.
> 
> The OP piqued my interest!  Where can I find these?

IIRC, Nibble published these by the hundreds, though most of them were
not really "games", but demonstrations.  There were even books of
one-liners published!

A line is limited to the length of the input buffer--I don't recall
the exact limit, but it's just under 256 characters, so one-liners
are very constrained.  There are several tricks for getting conditional
execution within a single line, since "IF" applies to the entire
remainder of the line.

Think of one-liners as a kind of puzzle, rather than as a useful
skill, and you've got the picture.  ;-)

-michael

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