Re: a compembler for x86 that looks nearly portable

1) Interesting. Sounds a bit like 'B' w/ built-in system calls.


2) This point is too important to be left buried at the end of a long post.
Everyone, in particular my own colleagues, repeat this to yourself until it
sinks in.


R. L. Watkins


> osimplay, formerly shasm, is an x86 macro-assembler, "mid-level-language",
or "compembler". It is implemented entirely in GNU Bash 2 without dependance
on any external utils.


> <snip>


> Bad names don't matter to machines, but frequently cause humans to write
dysfunctional, often totally self-extraneous code, and this effect is
self-compounding, and I believe people don't appreciate how bad the
situation is.

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