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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
