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: 109fba,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: "Dennis Weldy" Subject: Re: Porting Experiences (was Ada and Pascal etc ) Date: 1997/11/10 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 289130677 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> <3467828E.1059@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: 1997-11-10T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: He pretty much disappeared. No idea if anything happened. IMO, in the general case, the code produced with an HLL will be a bit more maintaibale and easier to understand than equivalent Assembly. That said, it's lso possible to write obscure, unmaintainable code in any language. Straight Assembly will typically have one too busy looking at individual pieces of bark, let alone being able to see a tree (or forest). That's not to say that its not possible:-) Further, if one is using assembly to get max speed, you'll use the associated tools to do so. Using a "nonobvious" instruction sequence to avoid pileline stalls, AGI locks, what have you. At the HLL level, one usually doesn't have that. And y'can usually see things at a bit higher level. A bt easier to see whats going on as the amount of information per line of code is typically higher. Just my views. Counterexamples welcome :-) Dennis Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz wrote in message <3467828E.1059@gsg.eds.com>... >Dennis Weldy wrote: >> >> 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". > >Thanks; I found a lot of posts from him in scientific news groups, but >all that I found in the comp.* hierarchy were messages about him. There >seem to be a lot of messages making catty remarks about him, but very >little background on what he did to provoke them. OTOH, with 1540 hits >there was no way that I could read all of them :-( > >BTW, did something happen to him recently? I saw some references to him >in the past tense, but didn't see an obit. > >-- > > 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