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=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 8d3408f8c3,9bdec20bcc7f3687 X-Google-Attributes: gid8d3408f8c3,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!feeder3.cambriumusenet.nl!feeder2.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!192.87.166.28.MISMATCH!tudelft.nl!txtfeed1.tudelft.nl!feed.xsnews.nl!border-1.ams.xsnews.nl!193.190.198.58.MISMATCH!aotearoa.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!news.net.uni-c.dk!dotsrc.org!filter.dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.pl1 Subject: Re: Why is Ada considered "too specialized" for scientific use References: <4bb9c72c$0$6990$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net> <4bba8bf1$0$56418$c30e37c6@exi-reader.telstra.net> <4bbb2246$8$fuzhry+tra$mr2ice@news.patriot.net> <4bbb5386$0$56422$c30e37c6@exi-reader.telstra.net> <4bbdf5c6$1$fuzhry+tra$mr2ice@news.patriot.net> <4c0a2e36$0$34205$c30e37c6@exi-reader.telstra.net> <4c0b234f$1$fuzhry+tra$mr2ice@news.patriot.net> Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2010 08:02:27 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: "Martin Krischik" Organization: Martin Krischik, Softwareentwicklung Message-ID: User-Agent: Opera Mail/10.53 (MacIntel) NNTP-Posting-Host: 89.236.175.138 X-Trace: news.sunsite.dk DXC=LCVAB^>NdQ]5dE91CT5^XYYSB=nbEKnk[Lk>VcI2_6Z]IDiY_4:UK?Sd3Nai^>E:QM5T2e^5VLiC>9VCNmW[M2\BH^ X-Complaints-To: staff@sunsite.dk Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11386 comp.lang.fortran:24116 comp.lang.pl1:1391 Date: 2010-06-07T08:02:27+02:00 List-Id: Am 06.06.2010, 21:12 Uhr, schrieb J. Clarke : > On 6/6/2010 1:15 PM, Martin Krischik wrote: >> Am 06.06.2010, 17:19 Uhr, schrieb J. Clarke : >> >>> 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? > > Does LDA #10 assemble to any _other_ code than A9 10? No. > Is there any _other_ code that assembles to A9 10? Yes: .BYTE $A9, $10 or: Ten: .EQ $10 LDA #Ten Did you all forget that assemblers support symbolic names, various pseudo codes and sometimes macros? That was the really useful part. Martin -- Martin Krischik mailto://krischik@users.sourceforge.net https://sourceforge.net/users/krischik