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tialaramex 17 hours ago

By "inflected by..." I'm suggesting that Structured Programming has altered how you write assembler even though of course assembler doesn't inherently provide that structure.

When you need to do X here and there, you write code to X and then you call it where it was useful - you don't have code in one function just jump to a label in a completely different function because, in this era where structured programming is taken for granted - that seems crazy. And it is, but only the same way that chattel slavery seems crazy today, in the Antebellum South it was just usual and likewise in 1950s computer software just jumping into unrelated code was normal.