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At least it's not HLA or GAS. Who else remembers the flamewars of the 90s between all the different factions of Asm programmers? MASM vs TASM vs RosAsm vs HLA
by userbinator 2mo ago
At least it's not HLA or GAS.
Who else remembers the flamewars of the 90s between all the different factions of Asm programmers? MASM vs TASM vs RosAsm vs HLA (basically no one took GAS seriously at all)... it was in some ways quite similar to the Chrysler vs Ford vs GM wars.
- rramadass 2mo agoComparison of assemblers - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_assemblers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_assemblers I remember during the DOS era TASM was all the rage; it was wicked fast. Unfortunately didn't get an opportunity to do much assembly programming after moving to Windows/Unix. When Randall Hyde published his HLA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Level_Assembly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Level_Assembly) i remember thinking it was a good idea since it allowed many high-level language programmers to easily learn assembly programming as it included all the well-known higher-level programming constructs. It was a proper new language, but the assembly purists were all outraged and Hyde caught a lot of flak which i think was unjustified.