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From: "Hunsberger, Peter" <Peter.Hunsberger@STJUDE.ORG>
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Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 14:39:01 -0600
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Pier Fumagalli <pier@betaversion.org> writes:

> On 31 Mar 2004, at 21:05, Hunsberger, Peter wrote:
>=20
> >> I'll need to come up with some block examples soon before being so=20
> >> misunderstood! :-)
> >
> > Hmm, let me see, multi-version, indirect, proxied class loading. Do=20
> > you really figure a couple of examples are going to stop you from=20
> > being misunderstood? ;-)
>=20
> Yes, I seriously think so...

I was being rhetorical, but if you're samples are as good as the code of
yours that I have seen, then I believe you.

> I come from an assembler background (I started coding on=20
> ASMx86 when I=20
> was 9), you know, that nice language where you have 4=20
> variables called=20
> "registers" and an array of N bytes where you can even=20
> rewrite the code=20
> you're executing if you're not careful enough.
=20
My assembler exposure (many years of OS maintenance) was the IBM 370
(latter 390) variant, more registers, but basically the same kind of
muckity muck with the addition of channel programming; IO that modifies
IO. Fun? Wow...

> The first time someone told me about Java I though: "object-oriented,=20
> memory-protected, interpreted-but-compiled language, gee I'll=20
> need more=20
> than a couple of examples to understand it"...
>=20
> Hmm, I'm not coding in assembler any more!

Heh! To paraphrase a Fortran truism: real assembler programmers can
program assembler in any language...