Re: Helpful Practical Uses of Conditional Assembly

From: The Wannabee (faq_at_.@.@SZMyggenPV.com)
Date: 09/01/04 

Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 03:02:30 +0200

På 31 Aug 2004 19:54:35 -0500, skrev Annie <me@privacy.net>:

>
> On 2004-08-31 randyhyde@earthlink.net said:
>
> > Well, as *I* make a living writing assembly code, I certainly
> > qualify. When was the last time *you* were paid to write
> > assembly code?
> _____
> That's no criterion at all, Randy. ((( `\
> _ _`\ )
> Being a paid code jockey doesn't (^ ) )
> confer 'expert' credentials on ~-( )
> the practitioner. _'((,,,)))
> ,-' \_/ `\
> There are plenty of lousy coders ( , |
> out there who are also being paid `-.-'`-.-'/|_|
> (as you well know). \ / | |
> =()=: / ,' aa
> Still, you deserve congratulations
> for your uncanny ability to set up
> irrelevant 'straw men.' Hehe!
>
> ---
> "HLA.EXE is not an assembler. Indeed, it's not even a compiler,
> pre-processor (or "preparser", whatever that is), though it
> *might* qualify as [a] 'text converter.'"
> - Randy Hyde, author of 'HLA,'
> in ALT.LANG.ASM newsgroup --
> August 11, 2004
>
Love you Annie, kick his ass. You should write a book for norwegians in
how to politly kick ass in english, allthough I doubt it will sell much in
France :))) 

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