[Coco] Linville's ramblings on assembly vs machine code

[Mathieu Bouchard]

It's very possible that a prototype was first written in a higher-level language 
and was then used for cross-assembling the first assembly-language version of 
itself. It's not called a convoluted solution when the alternative is to write 
everything directly in machine code ;-) Especially because you don't want to 
debug it as machine code too, and you haven't yet written a debugger/decompiler.


Le 2017-07-12 à 15:57:00, Tony Cappellini a écrit :

> Does anyone know who wrote EDTASM?
>
> It sure would be interesing to hear how they awrote it, and what kind of 
> development platform was used. I think it woul dbe painsful as hell writign an 
> assembler in machine language. But, remember before assmblers existed that was 
> the only choice.

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