On 9/23/2015 6:24 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote: > On 09/23/2015 02:27 PM, ben wrote: > >> The 60's idea that MACROS could do that seems to have faded away. >> Ben. > > It depends. One very handy method is to devise a machine architecture, > complete with registers and opcodes, and write the application code in > macros, creating instruction words--and then run them using a small > emulator for the devised machine. > > After operation can be validated, re-code the macro bodies to generate > native machine code instead of emulated fictitious machine instructions. > > A way to get certain tasks done very quickly. >
Shades of SIL for SNOBOL and also STAGE2. JRJ
