From: "Charles Mills" <charl...@mcn.org> Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2018 1:12 AM
We were all very conscious of "economy in all things programming" in those days. A label occupied a physical punched card or 80 bytes of precious DASD space.
DASD space was not precious. Nor were cards (cheap as chips). And the LP was fairly fast.
Medium-sized (by the standards of those days) assemblies took minutes and produced large paper listings.
Naturally, that's assembler.
A label would consume two lines of printout, one for the label and one for the xref (and one more if the macro were local in the source file). I can easily envision someone saying "why did you code that label??? You didn't need to do that! You could have just coded *+12"
There was none of that, even in earlier days, when an assembly took up to 15 minutes. One extra card at 200 cpm was nothing. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus
