On 2017-12-09, at 16:38:28, Phil Smith wrote: > I can't help but note that it's pretty funny that people are complaining > about assembler limitations. When I was a lad, the assembler could barely do > macros... > (Of course, so-called "high-level" languages like C should be so lucky as to > have the power of assembler macros! Their idea of a "macro" is really quite > primitive.) > "It could be worse," is faint praise indeed.
There have been better. The best I've used is the (apparently now defunct) Mainsail, which unified the concepts or MACRO, SET, and EQU (among others). -- gil
