Re: Why I stop attacking HLA


Randy wrote:
> Until you provide a decent alternative to the information on Webster,
> and market that alternative so people know about it, people are going
> to continue ignoring what you say and continue to go to Webster.
Betov did in fact provide a decent alternative to Webster and HLA.
He does not provide coverage of all the same topics covered, but he has
given beginners and others an alternative approach to assembly. RosAsm is a
great tool indeed, though not finished, has greater consistancy in syntax
than most other assemblers (refering to the [var], dword ptr[var] and var
equivalents in rosasm it will always be d§ prefix), the IDE is rather good,
with a nearly endless list of great easy to use "plugins". The only big
minus' is its inability to link to external (static) libraries / existing
object files. Of course also it has two disadvantages over HLA, the missing
stdlib (that would however be an autofix if it became able to link to
external libraries) and the incompatibility to linux.

About tutorials, Betov's own are not (or at least weren't for me) the best
(sorry Betov), but that doesn't matter, because the Bottom_Up_Assembly file
will teach you how to use RosAsm and it is great reference when
learning/programming and Betov provides from his webspace download links to
ported versions of many popular tutorials along with sources to many
programs.

RosAsm has been me a great help in my learning of assembly.

All of this does not however make him entitled to "troll" you, Randy,
around,

and Betov this is for you: Words such as ass-hole, troll and other ugly
nicknames will, when the apropriate smileys are not attached, make you less
respected and Randy more respected (as long as he doesn't use them toward
others himself) It is the socalled "reverse psychology" phenomena in action.
:)

Greetz to all :-D
;-)
Jakob Wrigley


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