Long ago in a galaxy far away, they handed each of us a stack of manuals and
told use that we were all enrolled in a 7070 class and had to read all of the
manuals before the class started. It turned out that some of the students were
answering questions that stumped the instructor, and that if you read the
manuals you didn't need the course.
The worst are the ones that score based on the quantity of comments instead of
their quality. That guaranties cluttered and unhelpful comments. People will
behave in such a fashion as to optimize how their organization ranks them; if
teir grades or performance reviews depend on doing something sub-optimal, then
that's what they'll do. Measure the things that actually matter.
I generally frown on marking students down on stylistic issues like labels on
separate lines, but I will mark down for
LA R7,5 Put 5 in register 7
Don't tell me what LA does, tell me why you're putting that value in that
register. If there is nothing useful to say in the comment, then omit it.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
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Subject: Re: EXTERNAL: Coding for the future
Crawford, Robert C. wrote, in part:
>Oh, and I used to this:
>LOOP MVC HERE,THERE
>And now do this:
>LOOP DS 0H
> MVC HERE,THERE
Yes, I was taught that early. Then I took a Commodore SuperPet assembler
class (after writing 370 assembler for several years). That assembler had no
DS 0H
but it did have
EQU *
So I used that-and was marked down for it. At that point, I stopped taking
the class seriously.
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