Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!bsu-cs!dhesi
From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: comments on comments
Keywords: comments
Message-ID: <5677@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 13 Feb 89 20:28:27 GMT
References: <1813@goofy.megatest.UUCP> <20233@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <4173bd76.183dc@apollo.COM>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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>>He wrote a filter to translate every [assembly] instruction into English
...
>>	LOAD AX, 1		; load the register AX with the value 1
>>This is the kind of syntax-based comment I
>>avoid.

I come across samples of assembly code for many different machines in
books, journals, magazines, source listings, etc., and it is not always
easy for me to understand them.  If each instruction were accompanied
by an English comment, life would be much simpler for all of us.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!dhesi
                    ARPA:  bsu-cs!dhesi@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu