[Info-vax] OT: PDP-11 history in arstechnica

[chris]

On 03/16/22 09:28, Bob Eager wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Mar 2022 00:25:47 +0000, chris wrote:
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>> Just saying, read left to right, move something from a source to a
>> destination, so the dec pdp11 macro syntax is more natural.
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> But possibly counter intuitive to a high level programmer, who is used
> to assignments going right to left!

Programmed in C for years as well, but perhaps different mental
processes for asm vs high level language programming ?. Assembler
is primarily moving something to work on,. whereas hll is more
algebraic by design and follows such rules.

Perhaps it's partly a matter of what we become familiar with though...

Chris

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> One of my favourite architectures was single address, so no problem
> anyway.
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