Re: A86: Re: Learn ASM? Check these out!
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Re: A86: Re: Learn ASM? Check these out!
If you think Asm is cryptic, you've not tried to program an HP. Here is the
code for a >Frac program I just wrote (but doesn't malways return reduced
fractions...):
<< -> a << 0 DO 1 + UNTIL DUP a * DUP IP == END DUP a * SWAP >> >>
Matt2000 wrote:
> >>Tell that to Matthew Shepcar (author of Rascall, Raptor, etc).. I remember
> >>his only
> >>comment was like a smiley face or something.. Heheh
> >
> >Well, if that works for him. I find asm to be so cryptic it needs
> >comments. But in other languages like C/C++ well written code kind of
> >documents itself. None of those one letter variable names!
>
> Well asm is very cryptic.... I find myself not knowing what I am doing
> unless I comment the source. It takes a long time
> however. A better interrmediate solution is to comment each subroutine or
> section and explain what it does, how it
> does it, and whatever else is important. Sometimes commenting every line is
> redudant and it takes a long time to get
> things done. On my site I usually comment the difficult routines line by
> line like FindPixel and PutSprite because these
> are advanced routines that are hard to figure out without comments...
>
> Later,
> Matt
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