Re: A82: Assembly programmers? where?
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Re: A82: Assembly programmers? where?
what about instead of a compiler if its just an editor to where you can
save it like a text file and then send it over to the computer later to
compile? =)
On Sat, 8 Nov 1997 12:11:16 +0100 "Dines Justesen"
<c958362@student.dtu.dk> writes:
>BASIC and ASM are too different to make a converter. Most of the
>functions
>found in BASIC can not be used in ASM, and some of the functions which
>makes
>ASM so good can not be used in basic. Alot of people like you program
>most
>of their BASIC games in school (andi did too before i started asm),
>when you
>are programming in asm that is just not possilbe (or at least not a
>good
>idea). This is why people from time to time suggest an assembler which
>you
>can run on tour calc, so you can write and test asm programs on your
>calc.
>The problem with this is that you ofthen crash your calc when you are
>programing in asm, and every time the calc crashed you would lose all
>your
>work if you where writing the program on the calc. In BASIC all errors
>are
>handled by the error handler, but this will not work with ASM because
>of the
>type of errors you normally make. So i can not see anyway to make it
>possible to make ASM programs on your calc, with it taking up too much
>extra
>time.
>
>Dines
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Larry G Currie <larry1492@juno.com>
>To: assembly-82@lists.ticalc.org <assembly-82@lists.ticalc.org>
>Date: 8. november 1997 04:51
>Subject: Re: A82: Assembly programmers? where?
>
>
>>I am hoping to write ASM programs. I just downloaded the ASH School
>>info two days ago, and hope to learn it quickly. I, for one, joined
>this
>>list so that I could learn more about ASM82 and hopefully write
>programs.
>> In the meantime, I am squeezing every millisecond out of basic that
>I
>>can. If someone ever wrote a BASIC to ASM converter, many more
>people
>>would be programming in less time (don't mention HAL). I never wrote
>>over 1% of any basic program out of school. Now with ASM, I need to
>be
>>in front of a computer. It takes so much more time. But if someone
>made
>>a BASIC=>ASM Converter...
>>-Larry C
>>Larry1492@juno.com
>>
>
>
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