Assembly vs. Everything Else (was: SemiOT: Mourning for ClassicComputing)

On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 02:45:08AM -0500, Jeffrey S. Sharp wrote: I just wanted to mention macros. If the assembler can define macros, and if it can accept a string argument to a macro, then you could combine a routine (like a simple version of the 6809 printf clone already posted) with a macro that calls it. Then you really would be able to write PRINT "HELLO WORLD" or something with similar syntax. Or you might want to use the full printf clone and write PRINTF "HELLO WORLD %D",X instead. Using macros to create a full high-level language environment would be hard. If that's what you want, then a high-level language with embedded assembler (like BBC BASIC) might be better. But you could certainly make a nice medium-level language (between assembler and C). If the macro processor is powerful enough, it could check the number of arguments to the PRINTF, and even C doesn't do that. -- Derek