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Well, you could edit machine code directly, or do the next best thing and write in assembler: cmp eax, 100 jle LESSTHAN mv 10, edx ret LESSTH

by wtracy 13y ago

Well, you could edit machine code directly, or do the next best thing and write in assembler: cmp eax, 100 jle LESSTHAN mv 10, edx ret LESSTHAN: mv 5, edx ret I doubt that's what the author had in mind, though.

sheetjs 13y ago
I'm surprised the author didn't write a shorter C example: return price > 100 ? 10 : 5;
- pmiller2 13y ago
  That produces a different AST than the if/else because it's an expression. :)
  - goldenkey 13y ago
    Every LISP statement is an expression too. So if you were trying to match them, you'd use the ternary.
yohanatan 13y ago
Actually LLVM assembly might be a better choice these days.
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waps 13y ago
A real programmer would write : 83 f8 64 7e 06 ba 0a 00 00 00 c3 ba 05 00 00 00 c3 Or even : 10000011 11111000 01100100 01111110 00000110 10111010 00001010 00000000 00000000 00000000 11000011 10111010 00000101 00000000 00000000 00000000 11000011 I'd do better still, but I lost my butterfly somewhere.
- sklivvz1971 13y ago
  A real programmer would hand assemble a LISP interpreter and then pass it the LISP source. Come on.