Article View: alt.folklore.computers
Article #620786Re: Nostalgia
From: Charles Richmond
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2018 22:42
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2018 22:42
36 lines
3066 bytes
3066 bytes
On 2/28/2018 6:33 AM, 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"
>
Some early cross assemblers for the 8-bit micros needed the label
terminated with a colon (:).
--
numerist at aquaporin4 dot com
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<p79vlf$5vm$2@dont-email.me>Path:
mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!a2ni155ite.0!nntp.google.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!goblin2!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mailReferences:
<p671b4212b3@news2.newsguy.com> <p672qv$74m$1@dont-email.me> <p67o2727bv@news1.newsguy.com> <p6967v$t5b$1@dont-email.me> <p6q0kb$t5$1@reader2.panix.com> <2MWdnbgKEKQjRA_HnZ2dnUU78XHNnZ2d@giganews.com> <ffga3cFrifbU1@mid.individual.net> <ffgu5uF5nalU15@mid.individual.net> <1313349967.541300884.430961.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <p6vrnc$ue5$1@dont-email.me> <slrnp97b4c.eu5.grahn+nntp@frailea.sa.invalid> <V82dnX-bOqfQxQvHnZ2dnUU78bmdnZ2d@giganews.com> <p88d9d14u89iac2s0etpmr40l9hbaj3lvi@4ax.com>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Received: by 10.36.74.11 with SMTP id k11mr2833410itb.27.1519944176813; Thu, 01 Mar 2018 14:42:56 -0800 (PST) X-BeenThere: alt.folklore.computers@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.107.18.226 with SMTP id 95ls1469928ios.21.gmail; Thu, 01 Mar 2018 14:42:55 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.107.30.16 with SMTP id e16mr2459207ioe.22.1519944175693; Thu, 01 Mar 2018 14:42:55 -0800 (PST) Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!a2ni155ite.0!nntp.google.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!goblin2!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Charles Richmond <nume...@aquaporin4.com> Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Nostalgia Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2018 16:42:57 -0600 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 36 Message-ID: <p79vlf$5vm$2@dont-email.me> References: <p671b4212b3@news2.newsguy.com> <p672qv$74m$1@dont-email.me> <p67o2727bv@news1.newsguy.com> <p6967v$t5b$1@dont-email.me> <p6q0kb$t5$1@reader2.panix.com> <2MWdnbgKEKQjRA_HnZ2dnUU78XHNnZ2d@giganews.com> <ffga3cFrifbU1@mid.individual.net> <ffgu5uF5nalU15@mid.individual.net> <1313349967.541300884.430961.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <p6vrnc$ue5$1@dont-email.me> <slrnp97b4c.eu5.grahn+nntp@frailea.sa.invalid> <V82dnX-bOqfQxQvHnZ2dnUU78bmdnZ2d@giganews.com> <p88d9d14u89iac2s0etpmr40l9hbaj3lvi@4ax.com> Reply-To: nume...@aquaporin4.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Injection-Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2018 22:42:55 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="2f08e00c98c0664e9b38dbd50dd46948"; logging-data="6134"; mail-complaints-to="ab...@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19jSTMMjgbdE82Nn4RZC9YyAiNRHha6ym8=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.6.0 In-Reply-To: <p88d9d14u89iac2s0etpmr40l9hbaj3lvi@4ax.com> Cancel-Lock: sha1:+uhwyA/q+ZSIAxpcxGSs9qW5zVs= Bytes: 2732 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit