Re: LZ: On how to...

Subject: Re: LZ: On how to...
From: barrym <barrym@neosoft.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 09:49:37 -0500 (CDT)
In-Reply-To: <199609291658.MAA19886@alpha.wcoil.com>

On Sun, 29 Sep 1996, Someone wrote:

>         Ok.  This is how I'm seeing things.  ALL you _very_ bright people
> who can write assembly language have made some attempt at explaination.
> I've tried to read alot of the explainations, but they all seem to jump into
> the topic instead of building a framework on which to hang ideas &amp; concepts.
> It's like putting up the drywall of a house first, then inserting the
> timbers to keep it sturdy.  If any of you could explain on what concepts a
> ZS prog is based (i.e. A ti-basic prog is based on loops (goto,lbl) and
> commands within those loops, while a ZS prog is based on... ??????), the 25
> of you who could program in ZS would become 26.

It's a fair question but it's based on a missunderstanding,
I think.  You have to supply the timber.  That's not an easy
task but its the only way you can learn it.  If you don't
learn assembly yourself no-one can explain it to you.  All
anyone else can do is give you a little help along the way.

As for what is assembly based on, its pretty much the same
as basic.  Basic, and all programming languages, borrow ideas
like loops and gotos and labels (variables, etc) from assembly.
What basic does is handle a lot of the details for you.

Barry

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LZ: On how to...

From: Someone <dareader@alpha.wcoil.com>