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From: Peter Flass <Peter_Flass@Yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Why is Ada considered "too specialized" for scientific use
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Martin Krischik wrote:
> Am 07.06.2010, 02:18 Uhr, schrieb J. Clarke <jclarke.usenet@cox.net>:
> 
>> On 6/6/2010 7:01 PM, Gib Bogle wrote:
>>> Martin Krischik wrote:
>>>> Am 06.06.2010, 17:19 Uhr, schrieb J. Clarke <jclarke.usenet@cox.net>:
>>>>
>>>>> On 6/6/2010 12:25 AM, Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> What do you believe to be the difference between machine code and
>>>>> assembler?
>>>>
>>>> 6502 Assembler:
>>>>
>>>> LDA #10
>>>>
>>>> 6502 Machine code:
>>>>
>>>> A9 10
>>>>
>>>> Any more silly questions?
>>>
>>> Yes. What relevance does this have for Fortran?
>>
>> None at all, but it's fun to torment the "I program in machine code 
>> because it gives me more control than assembler" crowd.
> 
> Maybe the talk about one of those advanced *macro* assemblers ;-). Now 
> that is a different story.
> 

Of course that's effectively two programs - a macro processor and an 
assembler.  The PL/I preprocessor isn't tied to the language and can be 
used as a general-purpose macro processor.