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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2015 19:19:50 -0500 From: Dennis Lee Bieber Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Is this a bug in my code or the compiler? Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2015 20:19:54 -0400 Organization: IISS Elusive Unicorn Message-ID: References: <4f4cd4b1-0a6d-441b-a4f7-98add70e4e1e@googlegroups.com> <1p71vf5ckbudu$.1qcb9ot1jpysk.dlg@40tude.net> <90baaa9f-8d9b-48bc-9b26-bb005fde9192@googlegroups.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 X-No-Archive: YES MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 108.73.116.76 X-Trace: sv3-RY5mAhBdVyPQIojkv9vQdmzCmz9PU1hkkg9oLqQIqcrpEJduU8PrwTP+A3o0OmdEHxXHcpRPAulLHHK!4Fxxg4NrB1HPcjQOk28ORjYyfmF0BQDSNBjdxyf+O6rn5n/Hzk1jJYhrtA6+p/BemcXU35lkeJ63!Wo5DGdDgIzcJG9CcXnTNuZCbF4c= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2398 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:26299 Date: 2015-06-12T20:19:54-04:00 List-Id: On Fri, 12 Jun 2015 15:10:21 -0700 (PDT), David Botton declaimed the following: >Yes, I could just write in assembly, but that would remove the efficiency of my creativity as a programmer :) I choose my tools to assist me in both beautiful expression of the idea that others can read (and as Wirth points out in Programming in Oberon, Assembly is unreadable) and to assist me in correctness. > Assembly is tedious -- and hardware specific (how much time did the PowerPC designers spend coming up with "EIEIO" as an instruction? rather than something like memsync; 68K with its differentiation between data and address registers, along with lots of addressing modes; ARM Thumb-2 [purported RISC architecture] with some instructions essentially embedding what would be stand-alone shift instructions as just parts of the addressing mode... Give me a good old "logical" Sigma-6 meta-symbol file!) PERL is unreadable... -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/