Herbert Kleebauer <klee@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> You can't imagine anything by the letters "LODSB" when you
> didn't read the description of this instruction.
We do not heve to 'imagine' anything when reading a Mnemonic.
We just have to have memorized what the Mnemonic does, and,
given the extremely reduced set of Mnemonics we have to know,
for writting an reading real-life Applications, and given the
beautiful simplicity of Assembly, this is really not a problem.
[As opposed to any HLL, by the way, where you have to _learn_
_tons_ of useless concepts, useless Libraries' Functions,
and useless writing conventions]
> To at least
> have an idea what's behind "move.b (r5.w)+-,r0" you don't
> need to read anything:
I suppose yes... if one had learned your private notation...
> Why do you think the 68k was much more popular for
> teaching assembly programming than the 8086 back in
> the good old day?
First, if what people think to be "popular" had any signification,
HLA would be an Assembler, MASM would be the best Assembler around,
and Bill Gates would be a Programmer.
Second, i program since 1968, and, believe it or not, i have never
used any 68k thing. And i am rather proud of it. :)
Third, the reasons why Assembly was never popular for x86, are well
known, and have no relationship with any king of reality, but with
the market rules.
Betov.
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