Comment by boffinAudio
3 months ago
I think its elegant because the distinction between Pascal and Assembly is made using the Pascal asm .. end; keywords, and in that block one can also access the Pascal variables without much fuss involving the assembler.
I find that really nice to read and to look at, whereas the examples given in the original article are prone to syntax overload, what with all the intermixing - for example, the variable declarations having what 'look' like attributes - but are really assembly instructions, emitted.
I guess one would have had to have enjoyed writing Turbo Pascal code, though, to see this particular aesthetic. A lot of folks do, some don't ..
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