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From: J. Clarke
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 12:33

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On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 07:20:40 +0000, Andrew Swallow
<am.sw...@btinternet.com> wrote:

>On 26/02/2018 06:43, Jorgen Grahn wrote:
>> On Mon, 2018-02-26, Dan Espen wrote:
>{snip}
>
>>>
>>> Putting a comment on every line makes it simpler to
>>> read the whole program as comments.  With highlighting
>>> this is an easy way to quickly absorb a module.
>>>
>>> Of course the comments may not be 100% right.
>>>
>>> In the above case, the code still needs a comment
>>> but it should be something like:
>>>
>>> x=5;		# Max supported fingers
>> 
>> max_supported_fingers=5;  # Nothing more to say
>> 
>> /Jorgen
>> 
>
>Nice to have an assembler that supports long variable names.

Never saw an assembler that recognized "=" or used the semicolon.  In
the assemblers I've used it's more like "ADDI		X,5"

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