Re: 20+ year old encrypted source code

Bill Gunshannon wrote:
I realize that, I was just countering the notion that early BASIC's
wasted valuable resources on something like encryiption.

If it were "tokenised" (aka: parsed source code to make the interpreter's job easier), you would still be able to see textual constants inside the jibberish. (aka: the "Hello World" in "print "Hello World") would still be readable inside the binary file.
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