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<p>a unique letter. This simplified the <a href="page.php?w=Parsing">parser</a>, which needed to read only the first letter of the command on a line of code, and could then skip forward to the next <a href="page.php?w=whitespace_character">whitespace character</a>. It would then compare that against an internal list of possible keywords, which was one character per entry. In contrast, JOSS had to continue reading until it had read the entire command word and then compared that against a list containing complete words. Not only did this change save</p><p>
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