Is Python like VB?

[Ivan Voras]

Re: Is Python like VB?

Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
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> You know of an assembly language that does Object Oriented?
> My... The world has been waiting with bated breath for that.[/color]

Hey, IIRC, old Turbo Assembler (tasm, by Borland) had those. Much of it
was still manual, by it supported semi-automatic vtables and such :)

[Dennis Lee Bieber]

Re: Is Python like VB?

On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 14:36:02 +0100, Ivan Voras <ivoras@_-_fer.hr>
declaimed the following in comp.lang.pytho n:
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> Hey, IIRC, old Turbo Assembler (tasm, by Borland) had those. Much of it
> was still manual, by it supported semi-automatic vtables and such :)[/color]

I'd suspect through a rather elaborate "macro" capability.

The standard assembler used in my college classes didn't even
understand the native instruction set of the machine -- until you
"imported" a definition file full of things like (not actual, I don't
have the manual available and it has been near 30 years):

LD std,1 AFA(1),'04'x, CF(2),AF(1)

which would define:

std,1 Standard command pattern 1

LD LoaD (32 bit word machine) Mnemonic
AFA(1) Argument Field 1 Asterisk (indirect access flag)
'04'x Opcode for LD
CF(2) Command Field argument 2
AF(1) Argument Field argument 1

to create a command that looked like:

LD,9 *SomeWhere

Load register 9 with the contents pointed to by the contents of
SomeWhere (leave off the * to load the contents of SomeWhere).

It also had a generic command builder, of the form

MNEM cmd,1,6,4,24 AFA(1), '04'x, CF(2), AF(1)

where the numbers after "cmd" define the size, in bits, of the
instruction field.

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[Ivan Voras]

Re: Is Python like VB?

Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:[color=blue]
> On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 14:36:02 +0100, Ivan Voras <ivoras@_-_fer.hr>
> declaimed the following in comp.lang.pytho n:
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>>Hey, IIRC, old Turbo Assembler (tasm, by Borland) had those. Much of it
>>was still manual, by it supported semi-automatic vtables and such :)[/color]
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> I'd suspect through a rather elaborate "macro" capability.[/color]

Probably... don't remember any more, but it was prominent in the manuals :)
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> The standard assembler used in my college classes didn't even
> understand the native instruction set of the machine -- until you[/color]
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> LD std,1 AFA(1),'04'x, CF(2),AF(1)[/color]

cool, these look like microinstructio ns :)