Re: Re: A86: ASM Question(imagine that)

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Subject: Re: Re: A86: ASM Question(imagine that)
From: "Dux Gregis" <assets@eden.rutgers.edu>
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 13:53:16 -0400
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No, that's not assembly language ... that's machine language.  If you're not
using assembly tokens, you're not using assembly language.


>
>You're absolutely wrong.  Programming assembly on the calculator is, after
a
>moderate learning period, just as technically easy to do as with a
computer.
>The only drawback is the amount of time it takes, for many things, like
jumps
>and strings, require to you define the exact place in memory it is (just
like
>the computer compiler does automatically), so you have to count the number
of
>bytes from D748, and for a good assembly program that can take literally
days.
><sigh>  The sorrows of owning a Macintosh...
>
>Stephen Walasavage
>Walasavage@postmark.net
>