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This is not much easier to read, this is just on much higher level. A processor does not have a conception of brackets. Infix notation blurs the real number of

This is not much easier to read, this is just on much higher level. A processor does not have a conception of brackets. Infix notation blurs the real number of operations. Processor has registers and your code does not say what you are putting in EAX what in EBX etc.

drpixie 4y ago
To be fair - the processor only has binary opcodes & operands :) My example wasn't clear enough - I wasn't proposing full expression compiling. If you think (simplistically) of assembler as a macro processor that maps text mnemonics onto opcodes, I was proposing matching basic expression terms to opcodes (but only simple terms, like "x + y", that map to individual instructions). Historically, there have been assemblers that do full expression compiling - where an expression compiles to multiple opcodes. But that's going back a way, when people still routinely used assembly. For modern purposes, where good compilers are easily available, something like that just confuses assembly with compilation.