Programmer Humor

I actually first thought that was weird and wasteful. Then I remembered that, uh, Commodore 64 often uses a similar thing. Basically, a lot of assembly and compiled languages just put the machine code into the BASIC memory, preceded by a stub BASIC program that's basically just "10 SYS addr" with that address pointing just past the end of the stub program itself. BASIC's LOAD command handles it just fine because program files don't have any header information besides load address. BASIC handles the loaded program just normally because the program has the end token, so as long as you don't modify the BASIC program, it'll be fine.