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Article #620784Re: Nostalgia
From: Gareths Downstairs Computer
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 12:38
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 12:38
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On 28/02/2018 12:33, J. Clarke wrote:
> 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"
>
I guess that a rudimentary assembler is the first software package to
accompany any new ISA and then never improved upon.
But what might be achieved if the assembler was specced in BNF format
leading onto the techniques in The Dragon Book?
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