Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU!MQUINN%UTCVM From: MQUINN%UTCVM@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: MacMusings Message-ID: <9010260141.AA06851@apple.com> Date: 26 Oct 90 01:35:30 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 31 On Thu, 25 Oct 90 16:48:21 GMT Jeffrey T. Hutzelman said: >I agree. Apple II code always has been tight and clean; there's no >other way to do it on a 6502. People who start to program on 68000's or >8086's find that they have all this memory and all these registers, and >they start using it all without thinking about it. On a system like the >Apple II where resources (time, memory, registers) are short, you have >to think about it. I agree whole heartedly with this, except the part about the registers. Everytime I write a ML program, I always wish I had a couple more registers because without them, I have to write more code that copies the register into a memory location, then later, more code to reload the register from that same memory location, where as, if I had those few more registers I was wishing for, I wouldn't have needed that extra load and store code and that extra memory to hold the register value. This also makes the program run a little bit slower. But I'm nit-picking, so I'll shut up now :) >----------------- >Jeffrey Hutzelman >America Online: JeffreyH11 >Internet/BITNET:jh4o+@andrew.cmu.edu, jhutz@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu, > jh4o@cmuccvma > >>> Apple // Forever!!! << ____________________________________________________________________ | | | | This is your brain... | BITNET-- mquinn@utcvm | | This is your brain on drugs... | pro-line: | | This is your brain on whole wheat.| mquinn@pro-gsplus.cts.com | |____________________________________|_______________________________|