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Jun 7, 2019 14:55:00   #
Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States
 
edrobinsonjr wrote:
Yes, assembler was definitely a pain but it was also the most efficient use of the machine short of binary.
I have always enjoyed writing code but it wa always somewhat disconcerting to spend a month writing a program and having the machine run it to completion in less than a second.

Ed

Yea! Funny that way, eh?

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Jun 7, 2019 15:01:20   #
Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States
 
Anhanga Brasil wrote:
To both of you. I know it is a PITA to go through hundreds
of lines in order to find a possible sintax error or variables definitions.
I used to program in Assembly, and don't get me started.
"Oh, no more ! Oh, never more !".

Like looking for a missing argument double/single quote or a missing tag closing ">"???
An extra ">" is easy to find. (search on ">>".)

Assembly is minutely detailed.
I had a friend, when I questioned why he didn't use comments in his assembly,
he replied "Why, it's self documenting."

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Jun 7, 2019 16:01:28   #
edrobinsonjr Loc: Boise, Idaho
 
Longshadow wrote:
Like looking for a missing argument double/single quote or a missing tag closing ">"???
An extra ">" is easy to find. (search on ">>".)

Assembly is minutely detailed.
I had a friend, when I questioned why he didn't use comments in his assembly,
he replied "Why, it's self documenting."
Like looking for a missing argument double/single ... (show quote)


It was always said that COBOL was self documenting. I always hated it when I was given some "self documenting" code to work with...

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Jun 7, 2019 16:11:33   #
Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States
 
edrobinsonjr wrote:
It was always said that COBOL was self documenting. I always hated it when I was given some "self documenting" code to work with...


Yea, that's because didn't statements go something like:

Multiply SubTotal by TaxPercent giving Total

Maybe?
Still had to figure out the intent and flow!

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Jun 7, 2019 18:08:29   #
edrobinsonjr Loc: Boise, Idaho
 
Longshadow wrote:
Yea, that's because didn't statements go something like:

Multiply SubTotal by TaxPercent giving Total

Maybe?
Still had to figure out the intent and flow!


Yes...

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Jun 8, 2019 11:52:30   #
Anhanga Brasil Loc: Cabo Frio - Brazil
 
edrobinsonjr wrote:
Yes, assembler was definitely a pain but it was also the most efficient use of the machine short of binary.
I have always enjoyed writing code but it wa always somewhat disconcerting to spend a month writing a program and having the machine run it to completion in less than a second.

Ed


Ditto !

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