>> Jon Perryman wrote: >> For large complicated problems, assembler is the language of choice. > Martin Ward wrote: > For large complicated problems a domain-specific language, > targeted at the problem domain, is the language of choice.
IBM assembler is the only language that I know which is easily tailored by the programmer to be domain specific. C has functions to reduce complication. C++ and other OOP languages have objects. Assembler can easily do this thru macro's and it has other tools to greatly reduce complexity. E.g. non-linear programming allows you to easily group source code that assembles in multiple locations in the module. > Martin Ward wrote: > Does assembler encourage good coding practices? No, assembler does not. However, it gives you the tools create really good coding practices and IBM has set a really good example thru their use of macro's to reduce complexity. Regards, Jon.
