Re: C# programmer wants to learn assembly?? plz help


Betov wrote:
Herbert Kleebauer <klee@xxxxxxxxx> écrivait news:4595490F.7557484
@unibwm.de:

Take an example, right here:

You have Master Pdf, the great expert of C, Flex and Bison,
who is proud of having spent _9_ YEARS, for writing a bad
HLL Pre-Parser in VHLL !!! (not even a real Macros System !!!)
I suppose that he used the proper Tool for the proper... lack
of intelligency, didn't he?


Uh, the fact that the product was first conceived about nine years ago
in no way suggests that the product has had nine years of development.
Unlike you, who *has* claimed in the past that you've spent 24/7/365
working on your product, HLA was never a full-time occupation for me.
During those same nine years I've also had a (more than, usually)
full-time job, written several books, written lots of documentation,
written lots of library routines (both in assembly and in other
languages), written quite a bit of HLL code (C/C++, Delphi, Perl, and,
of course, Flex and Bison), and generally had a life outside the field
of computers (for example, I run sound and lights for various bands as
a hobby business which consumes a couple weekends each month).

Yep, HLA has been going for almost 10 years now. You try to make that
sound like some sort of negative thing -- most people consider the kind
of support that HLA is getting to be a positive thing. Indeed, the
longevity of the RosAsm project is the *one* good thing I'll admit
about your own product (8 years, isn't it?). Of course, given that HLA
probably has two to three times the number of lines of code *and* was
basically developed by a single person (as a *very* part-time project),
that speaks *loads* about my productivity versus your own. RosAsm has
been going for eight years now, is a communal project (what is it, half
a dozen developers or so?), created by a retired person who has put a
lot of full-time effort into it.

Now granted, I'm a *somewhat better* programmer than you are, but I'd
suggest that the comparison of the two projects says a little bit about
the productivity gains of using a HLL as the implementation language
for an assembler. And should you care to argue, please provide the
links to all the books, documentation, and other projects you've been
working on over the past eight years. Let's see if you've been able to
accomplish all that I have along with producing your assembler project.
Oh, and don't forget to subtract out all the contributions of your team
when figuring out the productivity; after all, productivity is
basically measured as output produced per man hour. If one person
produces a product in ten years and a team produces an inferior product
in eight years, the productivity award has to go to the project created
by the individual.

Cheers,
Randy Hyde

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  • Re: RosAsm is still broken to this day.
    ... this will never save you from having written an HLL Pre- ... Parser in C, Flex and Bison. ...
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  • Re: Question for Randy or Frank
    ... if it is easier to not use VHLL like Flex ... > and Bison, why did you used them, to make the ... commercial quality assembly language development system with the rich ... feature set that HLA possesses. ...
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  • Re: RosAsm is still broken to this day.
    ... this will never save you from having written an HLL Pre- ... Parser in C, Flex and Bison. ...
    (alt.lang.asm)
  • Re: Wheels falling off CLAX again ?
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  • Re: some questions
    ... Betov wrote: ... Said by the guy who has nothing to show, but an HLL ... Pre-Parser written in Flex, Bison and C. ...
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