RCL IND IND: a solution in search of a problem?

[Marcus von Cube]

(12-19-2014 05:32 PM)Ángel Martin Wrote:  Yes I can see the resemblance; I guess the common thread is scarce resources, small amount of memory and other factors that forced programmers to think about the code as opposed to just copying and bloating code lines from libraries and other constructs...
those days are pretty much gone!

Not really, at lest not in the "embedded world". WP 34S is a pretty good example, even if written in C instead of assembly language. OTH I was already using C in the eighties on a Z80 driven machine control with a self written real time kernel.