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The 5th Byte

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We stay with BASIC, but raise the level and standard a few notches.

Norbert Landsteiner aka @mass_werk has once again delivered a masterpiece, and pursues the question, which data types actually exist on the machines of Commodore BASIC. Nobrainer, isn't it? 🧠

Float, Integer, String. Right?

Nope. In The Case of the 4th BASIC Variable we are taught better. (And that's a good thing, because I personally just ran out of pub betting material).

In fact, there's a fourth type, and with it – once again – something to learn. Without prejudging anything – it's exciting and instructive to see, how data types are represented in memory.

Want to go deeper? Here is your ticket. 👆

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