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From: bissiri@blake.acs.washington.edu (Moja Fritzah)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: assemblers
Message-ID: <1910@blake.acs.washington.edu>
Date: 5 May 89 22:16:02 GMT
Organization: Univ of Washington, Seattle
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A global thanks to the netters who
responded to my "What assembler do you use..?" inquiry.

Since I am about to purchase an assembler, 
I wanted to find out what the pros are using
and why they prefer one assembler over another.


Here are some of the choices with a quote or two as reason(s):

ASSEMBLER	VOTES	   REASONS

MadMac		  3	   "Speed"; "...supports command line.."; "macros"

AssemPro	  1.5       "Completely GEM, good optimizer, debugger.."

MWC		  1	   "..[assembler understands peculiarities of comp.].."

GAS		  1	   "..option to add C++ with their GC++ package..."

Alcyon		  1	   "Moderately quick...trust it...backends Alcyon C.."

Macro-11	  1	   "..other machines... God's idea of an assembler..."


Since I can't imagine working without GULAM, i am sure i will
go with a non-GEM interface.  Considering that MWC is not a 
full assembler, and that GAS and GCC prefer a machine
with more than 1 meg, I am left with Alcyon and MadMac.  Can't imagine
coding without power of macros... leaves me with MadMac... and possibly
for the most important reasons: Speed and flexibility.  

Does this decision put me in the position of purchasing the Developer's Kit?
        (i've been wanting to register anyway)

Thanks for all the help!

-kevin

 P.S.  Anbody else care to append this list..?