Dr. What wrote to Boraxman <=-
Boraxman wrote to Dr. What <=-
Was HLA (High Level Assembly) one of those? I did look into it, but I always preferred to be explicit about the instructions I used. When I
use assembler, it is because I am targetting an explicit instruction
set and want to make the decisions about which instructions to use
myself. The one time I thought a "generic" solution would be useful is when I want assembler that runs on both 32bit and 64bit Intel natively.
I never really got into assembly language other than to know it was
there. I've learned much more as I've been doing more research into the history of PCs.
I went from BASIC as a kid, straight to FORTRAN, Pascal, LISP, C and
more.
I think I did one class in Univac assembly in college. But it was
mainly to know what was happening "under the hood" when we worked in
the higher level languages.
I did work on some FORTRAN programs for GM 20+ years ago that used an assembly language subprogram that was self-modifying. The computer had
a fancy instruction they needed to use, but the assembler didn't
support it, so they wrote their subprogram to modify itself to use the fancy instruction the first time it was called.
Assembler was mostly frowned upon in my work because of the time and resources it took to use it. People time was more expsensive than computer time.
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