On 30 October 2012 10:30, Kirk Wolf <k...@dovetail.com> wrote:

> Let's suppose that there were similar Eclipse plug-ins for coding in 
> Assembler:

> - It would not only checks syntax, but would interatively assemble as you type
> - macros would be looked up as you type; you would get code completion 
> assistance for arguments/keywords
> - context-sensitive help for the 600 new instructions :-)
> - quickly navigate to all references to a symbol
> - maybe with a couple of keystrokes you could show the generated code, etc.

Didn't TSS/360 have much of that 40+ years ago? Certainly the
assembler had an incremental capability that interacted with the
editor, so you could update just one line and have it and its
dependencies reassembled.

Tony H.

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