Re: What do I do with Art Of Assembly?

From: Herbert Kleebauer (klee_at_unibwm.de)
Date: 01/16/04 

Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 10:20:17 +0100

Beth wrote:

> Truth is, the stuff about HLA above is merely _only_ to correct the
> "myths" circulating about it...I am not really telling you to use HLA
> or not use HLA...I'm just posting to make sure that if you've heard
> "rumours" about this and that, to make sure that _facts_ replace those
> "rumours" instead...I've given most of the assemblers a go and they
> all have their own "charm" and "character"...and, in the end, if you
> learn about ASM and the tool lets you put instructions in a sequence
> and spit it out into an EXE file then, with ASM coding, it's _your_
> knowledge that's most relevent...tools are tools...they just assist
> you in doing that...it really _ISN'T_ as big an issue as people often
> make out...but, well, it's one of those "religious" things - people
> with their own likes and dislikes - and gives people something to talk
> about (when not simply totally off-topic ;) while we wait for some
> actual code to be posted or for a proper, reasonable question (just
> like yours here, in fact ;) to appear on the group...

Please give us your definition of an assembler (in a few
sentences and not in hundred of pages). Then we can first
discuss this definition an then, using this definition, prove
whether HLA is an assembler or not.

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