Tom Handley wrote:

>  PSIM was a `dead horse' long before TechTools took over... I use to
> use it when I was starting out with the 16C84 and 16C71.  It would be
> nice to have an updated version but it's out of Parallax and
> TechTools's hands...

  I'm *absolutely fascinated* by this discussion.  To my mind an
assembler without macros and conditionals is *not usable* for serious
programming.  Agreed, you can use it with a generic preprocessor, but
the discussion then becomes how easy the pair can be used (within, say,
an IDE).

  Comparing programming in C to a non-macro assembler for example, as
appears to be a popular pastime, is hardly meaningful.  Of course, C is,
as has been often mentioned, itself BASICally a macro pre-processor. ;-)
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  Cheers,
        Paul B.