Re: Definitions - What are yours?

On Jul 31, 11:21 am, Betov <be...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
"rh...@xxxxxxxxxx" <rh...@xxxxxxxxxx> écrivaitnews:1185903483.201333.262700@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

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;

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Then, why on earth did you implement an HLL on FASM, clown?

I didn't. I implemented an assembly language.
You may not like that language, particularly as it competes with your
own product for mind share amongst beginning programmers (which, after
several years, you finally realize is where all the action is going to
be), but your displeasure with the HLA language doesn't change what it
is.

Take what Julliene had to say to heart-
An assembly *language* is one that lets the person write all the bare-
bones machine instructions with nothing getting in their way. And as
long as an implementation of that language allows this, it can be
called an assembler.

You don't really care about the definition of an assembler. You just
use the definition as a tool to attack products like HLA and MASM that
you perceive as threats to your own product. Such attacks make you
look ignorant, no matter how much the "expert" you try to act. Haven't
you noticed from people's comments around here that they've figured
you out? Do you honestly believe that anyone around here believes a
word you have to say on the subject?



Just rewriting the FASM Macros Parser would have been enough.
FASM is such a small trivial thing, you know...

Well, if FASM had been around in 1996 when I began work on AoA/32, I
might have actually considered doing that. I did consider this with
NASM and came to the conclusion that NASM was not going to satisfy my
needs. Probably would have come to the same conclusion with FASM, but
I certainly would have considered it. Alas, FASM came out *after* HLA,
so basing AoA/32 on FASM wasn't really an option.



Oh! I forgot, you could not write anything in Assembly, and
FASM is written in Assembly... indeed, this is a problem...

Funny. I was able to rewrite FASM in HLA. If I were incapable of
working in FASM assembly code, I don't see how I could possibly have
been able to do that.
hLater,
Randy Hyde

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