Shmuel, Long ago, shortly after I had learned Assembler, I was very keen on the possibilities of assembler language and its associated macro language. (I got a nodding acquaintance with FORTRAN and COBOL a little later but saw no reason to let this dampen my enthusiasm.) I fancied I saw the possibilities of building high level functions in assembler macro language. It's a shame that its power has tended to be restricted to system generation-like tasks - I should know as a perforce NCP specialist from the birth of NCP/EP.
Still as something of a novice, I surprised some grayer beards on a project by creating a generation macro for the software which included a sort in assembler macro language. This was more an intellectual exercise than being really necessary since the instructions could have been "you must list the addresses in ascending numerical order" with a check that aborted the generation if this instruction was not followed. Something else that came to mind was a comparison of the text markup "languages" GML and SCRIPT since GML is created from SCRIPT using the SCRIPT macro function - if my memory serves me well. Chris Mason ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: <IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU> Sent: Thursday, 02 March, 2006 3:38 PM Subject: Re: Fw: Tax chooses dead language - Austalia > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > on 03/01/2006 > at 09:59 AM, Jon Brock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > >C is often described, with a mixture of fondness and disdain varying > >according to the speaker, as "a language that combines all the > >elegance and power of assembly language with all the readability and > >maintainability of assembly language." (MIT Jargon Dictionary) > > It may be *described* that way, but the description is incorrect. > People making the claim are clearly not familiar with the elegance and > power of a decent macro language. > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT > ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> > We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. > (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
