And, bringing together two themes, keep your master code as "source", and crunch it to create the "executable". You can simplify this with EXEC files to automate things. Eg:At the risk of pointing out the obvious, you can use a BASIC crunching utility (my favourite being ABE's PACK, as ably championed by lurkio, and available from the modern command line via basictool) to get some of these optimisations performed automatically. They will merge multiple lines together, remove extra whitespace and change the variable names to both shorten them and spread them out across the alphabet.
LOAD "myprog/src"
*CRUNCH (or your crunch command of preference)
SAVE "myprog"
You can go further than this into more advanced program building by importing common bits of code to build the executable. See the final section of this document
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