From 6e9b15e0176e384ddd35ec51becb298886f4c2ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Pressey Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2018 13:14:32 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Small documentation updates. --- HISTORY.md | 1 + README.md | 16 ++++++++-------- 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/HISTORY.md b/HISTORY.md index e77b673..63e1128 100644 --- a/HISTORY.md +++ b/HISTORY.md @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ History of SixtyPical references in _all_ operations will be resolved after parsing. * As a consequence, trying to call or goto a non-routine-typed symbol is now an analysis error, not a syntax error. +* Deprecated `routine foo ...` syntax has been removed. * Split TODO off into own file. * `sixtypical` no longer writes the compiled binary to standard output. The `--output` command-line argument should be given diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 779f8bd..48c4471 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -6,16 +6,16 @@ _Version 0.17. Work-in-progress, everything is subject to change._ **SixtyPical** is a low-level programming language with advanced static analysis. Many of its primitive instructions resemble those of the 6502 CPU — in fact it is intended to be compiled to -6502 machine code — but along with these are constructs which -ease structuring and analysizing the code. - -SixtyPical aims to fill this niche: +6502 machine code — but along with these instructions are +constructs which ease structuring and analyzing the code. The +language aims to fill this niche: * You'd use assembly, but you don't want to spend hours debugging (say) a memory overrun that happened because of a ridiculous silly error. -* You'd use C, but you don't want the overhead of compiler-added - code to manage the stack and registers. +* You'd use C or some other "high-level" language, but you don't + want the extra overhead added by the compiler to manage the + stack and registers. SixtyPical gives the programmer a coding regimen on par with assembly language in terms of size and hands-on-ness, but also able to catch @@ -43,8 +43,8 @@ machine-language programming idioms, such as SixtyPical is defined by a specification document, a set of test cases, and a reference implementation written in Python 2. The reference -implementation can analyze and compile SixtyPical programs to 6502 machine code, -which can be run on several 6502-based 8-bit architectures: +implementation can analyze and compile SixtyPical programs to 6502 machine +code, which can be run on several 6502-based 8-bit architectures: * Commodore 64 * Commodore VIC-20