TIL that REM in Basic is short for "remark"!

When I learned Basic (sometime in the 80s on the Atari 400 & 800) I'm pretty sure I was told it meant "remove", as in "remove this line from the program".

And yes, before you ask, I'm reading the Applesoft Basic Programmer's Reference Manual…why not?

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Explaining multi-dimensional arrays using…eggs. And small change. 🤔