Is tape dead?

[ben]

On 9/15/2015 12:49 PM, Richard Loken wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Sep 2015, Chuck Guzis wrote:
>
>> Maybe that's changed today.  I remember seeing a figure of 11 debugged
>> lines of code per day per programmer as the average for a GSA programmer
>> back in the 1980s.
>
> I remeber that statistic from my youth, too.  What kind of code?  Fortran?
> APL?  Cobol?  Assember?  C?
>
> Okay, here are eleven lines of C code:
>
> 	#include <stdio.h>
>
> 	main()
> 	{
> 		int i;
>
> 		for(i = 0; i < 5; i++)
> 		{
> 			fprintf(stderr, "%d. Hello world\n", i);
> 		}
> 	}
>
> That is hardly the language for this kind of statistic.
>

I have just finished a 8 bit CPU in a FPGA...
Can you port those few lines of code for me?
Will get back to you tomorrow.
Ben.
PS:  No pushes or pops from the stack, just indexing off S
would make this tricky.  2 byte ints.
foo(a,b,c)  -> SUB S #8  params+return
             -> ST  A S...
	    -> JSR   #foo