tempforever said on Thu, 29 Jul 2021 12:13:51 -0400

>Is this commandment (the code of one subroutine fitting into one
>screen) an absolute rule?  What about, for example, assembly-language
>programming?  Must I buy a bigger screen? :-)
>I will admit that I do very little assembly anymore, so this wouldn't
>affect me much now.  I have many routines in C that take up many lines
>(more than a screen). 

I think the point is that if you have more that a screenful of code,
you should call one or more obviously named subroutines to do some of
it. You can even to this in assembly with Jump To Subroutine and Return
From Subroutine.

SteveT

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