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Subject: Re: C as an aid writing assembler
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Date: Sat, 24-May-86 00:49:33 EDT
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Posted: Sat May 24 00:49:33 1986
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Organization: UTexas Computation Center, Austin, Texas
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Summary: I DO write large assembler programs -- for a living!

> [...] Note that nobody writes "big"
> assembly language programs anymore.  [Radford Neal]

I have written many, many lines of assembler in the past 5+ years.  (I don't
know the exact number of lines, but it has to be in the tens of thousands.)
I'm currently finishing off a project which will be close to 10,000 lines,
all in assembler.  BTW, I have never used an HLL as a "precursor"; I think
that is a truly preposterous idea.  I have, however, used various sorts of
assembler-like "pseudo-codes", on occasion.

--
The above viewpoints are mine.  They are unrelated to
those of anyone else, including my cat and my employer.

Ken Montgomery  "Shredder-of-hapless-smurfs"
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