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From: kskelm@happy.colorado.edu
Subject: Re: Assembly Language Utilities Wanted
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In article <1991Jun4.133229.9078@maytag.waterloo.edu>, markb@csg.uwaterloo.ca (Mark Brezina) writes:
>  
> 	I'm also looking for a good assembly language monitor/assembler.  Any
> recommendations?

    Well, so far I've had good luck with both A68K assembler (Thanks, Charlie!)
and scypmon, both available in /amiga/languages/assembly on AB20.

    Since my mail to Charlie Gibbs bounced, this is a good chance to vent
my brain:

        *WHY* do the coders of all assemblers *INSIST* on having such
strict spacing rules!?!?!?  I refer to the fact that one cannot have a
space between operands.  It is SO much more readable with a space in
there... why can we not have one?  Another gripe is that labels are not
recognized in the following situation:

lab:move d1,d0

        Again- why?  There's a colon there.  That should suffice as a
separator.  I have tried repeatedly to get into Amiga assemblers-- and I
have repeatedly been distracted from the program at hand by tiny, petty,
numerous idiosyncrasies in the format that assemblers want.

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