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From: clt@pur-phy.UUCP (Carrick Talmadge)
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Subject: DON'T GET MAE/Merlin review
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Date: Tue, 14-Feb-84 00:56:25 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 14 00:56:25 1984
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This article is a followup of a previous review of the MAE assembler.
In my opinion, the term waste goes together excellently with
MAE's "Software Development System". It is truly a waste of money.
I bought MAE about eight months ago, as it was the only macro assembler
available at the time. The documentation is poor even by Commodore
standards. Several examples do not work, and in some cases are totally
wrong. The macro-assembler itself has a few problems all its own.
It does not allow expasion of macros with labels inside of other macros.
It does not have a way of accessing low and high bytes of labels
(i.e. #