[cpressey]

To this day, I find myself deleting comments or whitespace under some misguided pavlovian notion that my code will run faster.

Ouch!

btw, I think "fill the screen with @'s" must be the "Hello, world!" of Commodore machine-language programming. (Back when you could call it "ML" and not get it confused with a functional programming language, too.)

[spacemanaki]

That's funny, I always get confused and disappointed when hearing/reading people talk about "ML" only to realize they're talking about "machine learning" and not Milner's ML ... I hadn't thought there might be yet another overloaded definition.

[raverbashing]

Actually it shouldn't matter even for BASIC

More 'advanced' versions transform BASIC into bytecode that's interpreted, stripping all the comments

But yeah, for the early systems...