Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!uflorida!gatech!mcnc!rti!bbt!rlr From: rlr@bbt.UUCP (rader) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: In defence of *Real* programming - was Re: MEL - A *Real* Programmer Message-ID: <1036@bbt.UUCP> Date: 16 Nov 90 17:38:26 GMT References: <7380.271c3129@ccvax.ucd.ie> <1990Oct23.235720.16178@nas.nasa.gov> <6089@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu> <7386.2726d343@ccvax.ucd.ie> Reply-To: rlr@bbt.UUCP (rader) Organization: Broadband Technologies, Inc., Research Triangle Park, NC Lines: 20 peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: > b_haughey@ccvax.ucd.ie (Brian J Haughey) writes: >> First of all, when I write code I make no apologies for its succintness >> or cleverness. The project I am working on involves writing code in >> assembler for the 1802 microprocessor. > >IMHO, if you can't appreciate the 1802 you're not a Real Programmer. Hee, hee, hee! Yup, I worked at JPL, programming the Project Galileo Command and Data Subsystem. Quite an interesting endeavor, considering this virtual machine scheme implemented on 6 networked 1802s. All assembler, mind you! (Well, we had an in-house Structured Assembler, based on macros). And now I get the ignoble task of programming the Z8! -- ron rader, jr rlr%bbt@rti.rti.org = Opinions are my own and do not | | i gotta six- rlr%bbt$rti.rti.org@CUNYVM = necessarily reflect those of | | pack, & nothin' to do ...!mcnc!rti!bbt!rlr = BroadBand Tech. (SO THERE!) *** Punk ain't no religious cult, punk means thinking for yourself - DKs ***