From:	jtevik AT sage DOT nrri DOT umn DOT edu (John Tevik)
Subject:	Re: GAS vs Intel
To:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Date:	Sun, 10 Jan 1993 01:46:45 -0600 (CST)

> 
> The first time I had to look at a 68000 assembly language book, I was totally
> lost until I realized that the operand order was reversed from Intel's.
> Searching through two 68K books, I found no statement of what the operand
> order should be.  It's probably a religious issue, but I would argue that
> since in most high level languages you would say dest=source, an assembler
> shouls use the same order.
> 
Note that assemblers came before high-level languages. It could be argued
that HLL's should use source=dest :)
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