What does REM stand for in BASIC?

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jes5199 picture jes5199 · Aug 19, 2009 · Viewed 17.6k times · Source

Here's a blast from the past: what does "REM", the comment marker, stand for in BASIC? What's the origin of this non-obvious term?

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Chris Bunch picture Chris Bunch · Aug 19, 2009

I believe it stands for "Remark", that is, a comment. From the MSDN site:

Used to include explanatory remarks in the source code of a program.

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