I do know assembler. College class. Used once in over 40 years. Your memory is weak since I know I mentioned it previously.
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Tuesday, September 12, 2023, 8:34 AM, David Spiegel <00000468385049d1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: Hi Bill, Nice job cherry picking. Since you don't know Assembler, here is a fact you are (willfully) omitting. PL/S, PL/X, PL/AS etc. has never been been made available to all IBM customers. (I know that select customers have successfully obtained a licence.) Unless one works at IBM, there is still a need. Regards, David On 2023-09-12 08:16, Bill Johnson wrote: > “ Not to denigrate assembler programmers, or those that decide to take up > Sanskrit, but it is a dying art.” > > Indeed. > > > Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone > > > On Tuesday, September 12, 2023, 8:04 AM, Jon Butler <butler....@gmail.com> > wrote: > > There will be a need for assembler programmers for quite a while, but mainly > because over the last forty years, and long after even COBOL II added > functions and a case construction in 1987, very, very clever people decided > they would write application modules in assembler... and not waste time with > comments. Today, when companies are trying to make their systems Highly > Available...or even convert to a cloud provider's service...no one has a clue > what the modules do. Many could have been easily replaced by COBOL's ADDRESS > OF or LENGTH OF or PL/I Pointers, but of course that would have been way too > easy. Very few application programs need to control channels. > > When I was interviewed by the Db2 Utilities group at the Santa Teresa lab in > San Jose (Now Silicon Valley) in 2001, I said I suppose I needed to brush up > on my assembler. They laughed and said "no one uses assembler any more." > All the Utilities were written in PL/S, now PL/X. > > Not to denigrate assembler programmers, or those that decide to take up > Sanskrit, but it is a dying art. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
