🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1992Aug5.214216.6503@esds.mdc.com> bonney@esds.mdc.com (Greg Bonney) writes:
> In article <712851855.9378@zooid.guild.org> ron@zooid.guild.org (Secret Mud) writes:
> >From: mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz)
> >>Here's a programmer who is very professional.  Note that he chose to use
> >>Pascal to do the mundane tasks of opening files, parsing PCX format,
> >>and setting things up.  Then he lets it rip in 100% assembly.  Actually,
> >>there is about 100 lines too many of Pascal for my blood :)
> >>
>
> I also noticed his use of goto's.  This isn't intended as a flame, but my
> college professors would faint dead!
>

Make 'em faint every 5 minutes! :)  How fortunate that goto maps to an instruction
that is available on every CPU (or variant of the instruction): jmp, bra, jr, etc.
To ignore goto is like burying your head in the sand.

> By the way, if the compatibility of various in-line assemblers is a problem,
> why not keep most of the assembly code separate and link it in?  Then you
> could use C for the "mundane" things, and the whole program would be fairly
> portable, at least between Borland and Microsoft platforms.  IMHO, this would
> be even more "professional".  Obviously, there's more than one way to skin a
> cat, so please don't think I'm flaming anybody.

I personally do not like the style of PC compiler in-line assemblers.  I do
like having #asm/#endasm in my 'C' compiler though.  Lets you code functions
in you choice of language and keep your functions organized AS you like.

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Sega Genesis programmer of: Dick Tracy and Marble Madness.
Mike Schwartz  (ames!zorch!amiga0!mykes or mykes@amiga0.sf-bay.org)
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