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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID 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: 1014db,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public From: "Dennis Weldy" Subject: Re: Porting Experiences (was Ada and Pascal etc ) Date: 1997/11/09 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 288162263 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> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Organization: Intergraph Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1997-11-09T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Go check DejaNews. Restrict yourself to the comp.lang.asm.x86, comp.lang.c, and comp.lng.c++ newsgroups. Look for messages by "Scott Nudds". Really a quite unique induhvidual. Dennis Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz wrote in message <346382BD.25F8@gsg.eds.com>... >Craig Franck wrote: >> >> "Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz" wrote: >> >Craig Franck wrote: >> >> >Second, if you are using a modern >> >assembler with a decent macro processor, the assembler code is likely to >> >be more maintainable than C code as well >> >> That's silly. (You been hanging out with SN?) > >It's not silly, it's true. "Saying "that's silly" instead of presenting >your ervidence, if any, is what's silly. And I have no idea who SN is. > >> >(yes, I know that it won't be >> >as tight as hand coded one-for-one, but that doesn't bother me.) >> >> By the time you have a macro assembler as maintainable as C, you >> would have implemented a compiler. At which point using it would >> be silly, because C is more portable. > >Trying to pur words in my mouth is what's silly here; I never claimed >that the assembler code was portable, just more maintainable. > >-- > > 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