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From: oz@yetti.UUCP (Ozan Yigit)
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Subject: Re: Re: Assembly VS HOL: Having it both
Message-ID: <196@yetti.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 10-Jun-85 14:08:27 EDT
Article-I.D.: yetti.196
Posted: Mon Jun 10 14:08:27 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 10-Jun-85 18:41:26 EDT
Reply-To: oz@yetti.UUCP (Ozan Yigit)
Organization: York University Computer Science
Lines: 28
Keywords: Assembly, HOL, SMAL/80

>Maybe what I should be squawking about is a better syntax for assembler
>language than the traditional one...
>-- 
>D Gary Grady

	Have you heard of SMAL/80 ??? It was a "structured assembler" written
	in Bell Labs for 8080/Z80 processors. It looked much like C, and it was
	VERY readable..For example:

		intel		zilog		smal/80

		JPE addr	JP  PE,addr	if even goto addr
		XRA C		XOR C		A = A xor C
		INR A		INC A		++A
		MOV B,A		LD  B,A		B = A

	It also contains a LOOP - REPEAT construct and IF cond
						          stmt	construct.

	Maybe it is time to revive this neat little language for the newer
	set of architectures.

	Ref: IEEE MICRO, Feb. 1982, Vol 2 #1. Pp. 63-71

	Oz	[whizzard of something or another, no doubt..]

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