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In article <70...@milton.u.washington.edu> m...@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU (Mark Crispin) writes:
|In article <1990Sep3.0...@cbnewsh.att.com> w...@cbnewsh.att.com (Bill Stewart 201-949-0705 erebus.att.com!wcs) writes:
|>(unfortunately) a lot of what purported to be
|>interesting algorithms written in highly legible PDP-10 assembler.
|
|Yes, indeed, the assembler was highly legible.  It was, without a
|doubt, the easiest assembly language to read and understand; a true
|delight to program in.  This was one of the reasons migration from the
|PDP-10 was so painful; there was *much* more programmed in assembly
|language for that machine than for just about any other platform.

The language was a little tricky to learn to program with: (1) the available
operations were so rich it was often hard to pick the right one and
(2) it's really surprising to learn that JUMP and SKIP are always
no-ops.  :-)

I agree with everything else you said.

	/JBL
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