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From perusing his posts, I get the impression that he needs something inserted between himself and the machine... 4 choices
a) pencil and paper
Decide what you want first written in your own language. Then procede to the machine to type it in expanding the complicated parts as you go along. If you want to be "old school" do it all on paper first including the translations.
b) programmer
Herman Rubin bringing Henry: 1. Rhetorical question. You have stated the equivalent of "I believe I could do it easily in what could be called a...
Get somebody that knows what you want and just shoot your stuff over to him-her. I mean that *is* what computer programmers are for.
c) pre-compiler
Write (or have written) a pre-compiler that can take your inline notes (a variation on commenting for instance) to produce pre-compiler source code or buttembly level code when necessary.
d) faster hardware
This of course is the current industry standard.
As far as earlier concerns about compilers optimizing in a non-application specific manner, a non-complicated test if you can't get ahold of (or can't read) proprietary compiler source code is to time a calculation a thousand times using the standard compiler, then do it again in buttembler...
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