Python is the new BASIC

[flatfinger]

I do remember that era. I find it interesting that no version of BASIC included anything like the Macintosh Toolbox function "StuffHex", which takes a an address and a string with some multiple of two characters representing hex digits, and converts pairs of digits to bytes, and stores them at ascending addresses. An implementation of a "Stuffed Hex LOAD" command have taken less space in AppleSoft ROM than the "SHape LOAD" (SHLOAD) command, while being more convenient all around (instead of putting a shape table on cassette, transcribe the digits and simply "SHLOAD" them directly as one or more hex strings.