On Thu, 17 Jun 2021 16:53:30 +1000, Wayne Bickerdike wrote:

>Many years ago I worked with a very smart assembler programmer. He
>developed a suite of programs that built Assembler programs using Michael
>Jackon Structured programming constructs.
>
Aren't you describing what's called a "compiler"?

>It was called CODEL and basically you wrote the structure constructs,
>SEQUENCE, ITERATION and SELECT as if it were a program specification.
>
>If it passed all parsing rules, it would build the Assembler code (From
>macros) and the real neat thing was that it printed a program structure
>diagram that reflected the program.
>
>It was very easy to conduct a design review and generally the
>resulting code was correct.

-- gil

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