Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Bob Eager Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: PL/I advertising Date: 5 Jun 2016 07:20:06 GMT Lines: 37 Message-ID: References: <873a27e2-6baf-4772-9dc8-45a8f1bc466e@googlegroups.com> <574dc93b.9587566@nntp2.rawbw.com> <5750739e.11401875@nntp2.rawbw.com> <4da58f61-3979-4b10-9e83-014591156ba7@googlegroups.com> <874m9aszdh.fsf@senguio.mx> <76a17cba-109f-4cb8-9a65-72a5432e322e@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net wreK/qW02e3KExNfBimwDgcpHIJferWUJ37H0kwUJuDuJcswrF Cancel-Lock: sha1:HANPeS6FeKs+ZKmLn1Q1VST0E7k= User-Agent: Pan/0.139 (Sexual Chocolate; GIT bf56508 git://git.gnome.org/pan2) Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:164532 On Sun, 05 Jun 2016 03:04:17 +0100, Andrew Swallow wrote: > On 04/06/2016 22:02, Bob Eager wrote: >> On Sat, 04 Jun 2016 13:28:26 -0700, hancock4 wrote: >> >>> On Friday, June 3, 2016 at 6:04:29 PM UTC-4, Lawrence Statton NK1G >>> wrote: >>> >>>>> Compilers are compilers. It would depend on the compiler writer. >>>> >>>> I think you made the same mistake I made -- he's not talking about >>>> the quality of the code produced by the assembler, but the "quality" >>>> of the code that is the assembler itself. (NB that they're >>>> discussing an assembler, not a compiler, and there is no "code >>>> generator" apart from the programmers brain.) >>> >>> Actually, I'm talking about both--the assembler program itself (speed >>> of assembly), as well as the quality of the created object code. >> >> I can't see how the quality of the created code could have anything to >> do with the language in which the assembler is written! >> >> >> > COBOL is a good language to write an assembler that does not support > macros and the fields are at fixed positions on the line. That was my thought. I would personally use a separate macro preprocessor (I use a very good one, and it's not cpp). -- Using UNIX since v6 (1975)... Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org