From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: "Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz" Subject: Re: Porting Experiences (was Ada and Pascal etc ) Date: 1997/11/12 Message-ID: <346A598C.41E8@gsg.eds.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 289144588 References: <34557f2b.1934172@news.mindspring.com> <345BB35E.4488@dynamite.com.au> <63ftj9$r9g@bgtnsc02.worldnet.att.net> <345E3ACD.A15@gsg.eds.com> <63mcmm$r3s$1@helios.crest.nt.com> <345F95D0.3984@gsg.eds.com> <63omr0$put@bgtnsc02.worldnet.att.net> <34610614.33AC@gsg.eds.com> <63tq2h$b6o@bgtnsc02.worldnet.att.net> <346382BD.25F8@gsg.eds.com> <640ena$1q8@mtinsc04.worldnet.att.net> <3467750E.4DE6@gsg.eds.com> <648asb$5dp@bgtnsc03.worldnet.att.net> Organization: EDS MS Reply-To: nospam@gsg.eds.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1997-11-12T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Craig Franck wrote: > I meant the source code the programmer would produce using those > two tools. (I was a bit ambiguous with my phrasing.) Well, if that's what you meant, I've got decades of experiences in a lot of languages. The languages that have a good macro facility have an dvantage for applications where you need to supply complicated initial alues, since you can write a macro to automate the dirty work. Still mportant, but less so, is the generation of conditional code based on yntactical tests, e.g., number of arguments. > Why, were they doing that in the 19th century. :-) Hyerbole; sometimes I say "Before the fool, and I'm quite certain that old man Noach wasn't building computers with that gopher wood. ;-) > >If the only macro assembler that you know is MASM, then I question your > >competence to address the issue. > > I like MASM. It has its good points, but there are wide variations among assemblers, and unless you've seen a number of them then you have no basis to discuss assemblers in general, only the ones that you've seen. > Then suggest a better macro assembler. Please, *do* enlighten. Well, the most widely available one is the IBM High Level Assembler don't blame me; I didn't pick the name.) > >It's not so > >much that C and MASM is all you know, it's that you don't understand > >that not all assemblers are the same and that not all programs in the > >same language are the same. > > Every one of those points you just made is false. Perhaps, but your message certainly suggested that you have a very limited language background, and you haven't presented any reasons for me to believe that it's wrong. BTW, to answer a few last questions, I'm reading this on comp.lang.ada and I don't have access to any of my old source code or that of my colleagues. What's worse, there's stuff that I wouldn't be allowed to post even if I had access. Yeah, I know that I'm not the only one with that last problem :-( but I grew up in a culture of freely exchanging code and miss it. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Senior Software SE The values in from and reply-to are for the benefit of spammers: reply to domain eds.com, user msustys1.smetz or to domain gsg.eds.com, user smetz. Do not reply to spamtrap@library.lspace.org