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Of course you need JMP in assembler! You need it to skip that else clause, or return to the top of the loop. You just use it at the boundaries of logical code blocks, to implement the same semantics as the opening and closing braces of the equivalent C program.
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Anyone who indents assembly code will be burned at the stake for such heresy.
Nothing succeeds like a budgie without teeth.
To err is human, to arr is pirate.
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Considering gas prices (1.7€ / scm), collecting stakes to be burned is a solution.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Labels start in column 1, instructions in column 11, operands in column 21, and comments in column 41 (although the semi-colon should be in column 39).
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YES. I indent everything, even my notes. But I did backport an habit from assembly: I align operators and operands on consecutive lines. Example
longFunctionName(arg1, argument2);
shortFunction (argument1, arg2 );
Not only it makes it easier for me to parse the code but it's a boon when used with column editing. All the coworkers who have worked on my code appreciate it too.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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No, of course not. Assembler was supposed to be hard to read, nothing should make it easier!
I also didn't indent FORTRAN - but then it didn't lend itself to that.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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The FORTRAN I used back in the day had everything in specific columns. So yeah, no indentions.
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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Lots of Fortran programmers never knew: In cols 7 to 72, all spaces were insignificant. You could write GOTO or GO TO, COMM ON and SUB ROUTINE.
Furthermore, no tokens were reserved. You could name a SUBROUTINE FUNCTION or SUBROUTINE, to be called as "CALL FUNCTION(x)" or "CALL SUBROUTINE(y)". You could have a REAL variable named INTGEGER or REAL, and write statements such as "IF INTEGER.L T.REAL GOT 0123"
The last Fortran I touched was a Fortran77 implementation. During the design discussions for Fortran77, with each proposed extension crazier than the other, one of the old gurus (Dijkstra?) remarked that "I do not know what programming languages will look like in year 2000, but they will be named Fortran!" When I stumbled across Fortran 2011, my immediate reaction was: "You were just so right, old Master!" I guess that Fortran of today both have significant spaces and reserved words. But I wouldn't be sure of it without checking the language specification. 
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trønderen wrote: no tokens were reserved. You could name a SUBROUTINE FUNCTION or SUBROUTINE, to be called as "CALL FUNCTION(x)" or "CALL SUBROUTINE(y)". You could have a REAL variable named INTGEGER or REAL, and write statements such as "IF INTEGER.L T.REAL GOT 0123"
Oh barf.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I also used Fortran77 in tech school. You're right, I don't recall them saying anything about spaces being ignored in those columns.
One of my cousins created (or co-created, I don't remember) PDE2D using Fortran. The latest Windows version uses v11, and the Linux and Mac version use various flavors of GNU GFortran.
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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The last time I wrote assembly code was on an XT box (8088 processor) using edlin. I barely remember what I ate for dinner yesterday, much less code from 40 years ago. I do remember loving to code that close to the hardware.
And thanks for reminding me that I'm old as dirt. 
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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Never, always been a tab then the op code. Labels start in the first column.
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Hmm. My last significant bit of assembly language was an OS/2 device driver written in Intel assembly language, flat memory model (yay!).
There were a few places in the driver that implemented algorithms I originally (pseudo)coded in C. Those places tended to use indentation that resembled the original C.
Indentation was not my practice throughout.
Software Zen: delete this;
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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OriginalGriff wrote: I was lucky today!
and I started with the other half of the palindrome!
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Ooo! 4 yellow and a green? Nice - I've not had that combo. 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Huh.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
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