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- From: gb@cs.purdue.edu (Gerald Baumgartner)
- Newsgroups: comp.object
- Subject: Re: Object-Oriented Assembly [?!]
- Date: 21 Nov 1992 18:59:40 -0500
- Organization: Department of Computer Sciences, Purdue University
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- In-reply-to: ogd@selway.umt.edu's message of Sat, 21 Nov 1992 08:13:21 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov21.081321.23912@selway.umt.edu> ogd@selway.umt.edu (ozymandias G desiderata) writes:
- > When I was browsing through Powell's Technical Bookstore (in
- > Portland, OR - total hacker heaven, in case you care), I came across a
- > peculiar volume entitled "Object-Oriented Assembly".
- > exactly it said it was about: retrofitting macro-based assembly code
- > so that it derived some of the benefits of OOD. I thought it was a
- > total hoot, but the frightening part is that it made a demented sort
- > of sense.
-
- That concept doesn't sound strange at all. C++ is another example.
-
- C did a good job as machine-independent assembly language. Now they
- retrofitted a macro processor (called `cfront') on top of it to make
- it look like an object-oriented machine-independent assembly language.
- Once the C++ assemblers do a good enough job in optimizing, you might
- very well see people compiling high level languages down to C++.
-
- Cheers,
-
- Gerald
-