From: utzoo!decvax!cca!hplabs!soreff@sri-unix Newsgroups: net.jokes Title: untitled Article-I.D.: hplabs.396 Posted: Thu May 13 15:25:37 1982 Received: Fri May 14 05:34:47 1982 An interpreter that didn't break up its input language into tokens for storage during execution was characterized as thinking to itself, when it chanced upon "if payroll>budget then goto 300" during execution, "p... a... y... r... o... l... l... payroll! I recognize that variable!", on every pass through that program line.