Re: Definitions - What are yours?

On Jul 31, 10:18 am, Betov <be...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
"rh...@xxxxxxxxxx" <rh...@xxxxxxxxxx> écrivaitnews:1185900194.392324.287510@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

Obviously, you haven't thought this through very well. You're just
hell-bent on trying to remove products like TASM, MASM, and HLA from
the "assembler" category so you don't have to compete with them on a
feature-by-feature basis.

Stop associating, on design, TASM and MASM with HLA, clown.

Really?
Why don't you explain what it is about HLA that makes it so different
from MASM and TASM?


TASM and MASM are Compiler for Assembly Language, which is
rather close to Assembly. An HLL like HLA is not close, at
all.

Well, "compilers for assembly language" are assemblers. So we're
halfway home. Now please explain to me why HLA is not in the same
class as MASM and TASM.

Indeed, the way I look at it, HLA fits your definition of an
"assembler" a whole lot better than MASM or TASM. After all, with HLA,
one can turn off all the HLL-like control structures and such
(something you cannot do with MASM or TASM). HLA's macro facilities
are powerful enough to reconstruct all the HLL-like control structures
and what-not that you remove when you turn all that off; I'm not at
all convinced that it is possible to do this with MASM or TASM.

So give it your best shot -- explain to us why MASM and TASM are in
some category that doesn't include HLA.
hLater,
Randy Hyde


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