A92: Re: Re: A83: ideas and stuff

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Subject: A92: Re: Re: A83: ideas and stuff
From: "Trey Jazz" <joemama@minot.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1998 12:30:51 -0500
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assemblers are compilers that compile assembly. compile means to take a
program in one form and compact it to make it smaller into symbols that
represent something.

>Now I'm getting kind of ticked...just a little.  I specifically said
>"assembler" not compiler, there's a difference.  An assembler I always
>thought of was something that changes word to byte, word to byte, and it
>was always 1 to 1 direct translation.  Compiling is something that
>stores all labels and crap first, then starts to assemble.  I wanted to
>see something simple as an assembler at first, then later have it
>upgraded to a compiler, and maybe even a translator.

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