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Re: Programming D. E. Knuth in Python with the Deterministic Finite Automaton construct

From Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
Subject Re: Programming D. E. Knuth in Python with the Deterministic Finite Automaton construct
Date 2012-03-19 01:02 -0400
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On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 02:02:23 +0100, Kiuhnm
<kiuhnm03.4t.yahoo.it@mail.python.org> declaimed the following in
gmane.comp.python.general:

> 
> Many ASM languages don't have structured control flow statements but 
> only jmps, which are roughly equivalent to gotos. A good decompiler will 
> need to analize the net of jmps and try to rewrite the code using 
> structured control flow statements.
> The idea is to maximize readability, of course.
>
	Never met Sigma's Meta-Symbol <G>

	Okay, the machine level code was limited to basic condition/jump...
But a master of Meta-Symbol (I wasn't such -- not in a trimester college
course) could create macros that would make it structured. 

	In a way, Meta-Symbol wasn't an assembly language so much as a
language for defining assembly languages (I once wasted a few hours at
work writing out the Meta-Symbol definition file needed to produce
absolute-address 8080 output. Even the native Sigma instruction set had
to be loaded into Meta-Symbol before it could process a file).

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	Wulfraed                 Dennis Lee Bieber         AF6VN
        wlfraed@ix.netcom.com    HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/

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Programming D. E. Knuth in Python with the Deterministic Finite Automaton construct Antti J Ylikoski <antti.ylikoski@tkk.fi> - 2012-03-17 16:03 +0200
  Re: Programming D. E. Knuth in Python with the Deterministic Finite Automaton construct Mel Wilson <mwilson@the-wire.com> - 2012-03-17 10:39 -0400
  Re: Programming D. E. Knuth in Python with the Deterministic Finite Automaton construct Kiuhnm <kiuhnm03.4t.yahoo.it> - 2012-03-17 15:45 +0100
    Re: Programming D. E. Knuth in Python with the Deterministic Finite Automaton construct Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2012-03-17 09:01 -0600
      Re: Programming D. E. Knuth in Python with the Deterministic Finite Automaton construct Kiuhnm <kiuhnm03.4t.yahoo.it> - 2012-03-17 16:12 +0100
        Re: Programming D. E. Knuth in Python with the Deterministic Finite Automaton construct Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2012-03-17 09:53 -0600
          Re: Programming D. E. Knuth in Python with the Deterministic Finite Automaton construct Kiuhnm <kiuhnm03.4t.yahoo.it> - 2012-03-17 18:55 +0100
            Re: Programming D. E. Knuth in Python with the Deterministic Finite Automaton construct Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2012-03-17 17:28 -0600
              Re: Programming D. E. Knuth in Python with the Deterministic Finite Automaton construct Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-03-18 01:54 +0000
                Re: Programming D. E. Knuth in Python with the Deterministic Finite Automaton construct Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2012-03-18 11:03 +0000
              Re: Programming D. E. Knuth in Python with the Deterministic Finite Automaton construct Kiuhnm <kiuhnm03.4t.yahoo.it> - 2012-03-19 02:02 +0100
                Re: Programming D. E. Knuth in Python with the Deterministic Finite Automaton construct Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2012-03-19 01:02 -0400
                Re: Programming D. E. Knuth in Python with the Deterministic Finite Automaton construct Kiuhnm <kiuhnm03.4t.yahoo.it> - 2012-03-19 11:24 +0100
  Re: Programming D. E. Knuth in Python with the Deterministic Finite Automaton construct Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-03-17 11:47 -0400
    Re: Programming D. E. Knuth in Python with the Deterministic Finite Automaton construct Antti J Ylikoski <antti.ylikoski@tkk.fi> - 2012-03-17 18:31 +0200
      Re: Programming D. E. Knuth in Python with the Deterministic Finite Automaton construct John Nagle <nagle@animats.com> - 2012-03-17 11:44 -0700
  Re: Programming D. E. Knuth in Python with the Deterministic Finite Automaton construct Evan Driscoll <driscoll@cs.wisc.edu> - 2012-03-17 21:59 -0500
  Re: Programming D. E. Knuth in Python with the Deterministic Finite Automaton construct Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2012-03-18 11:08 +0000

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