[Info-vax] Bliss was Re: Learning VMS application programming

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In article <c726b652-f7dd-4fb3-a5a3-d07b2fd2e939 at googlegroups.com>, abrsvc <dansabrservices at yahoo.com> writes:
> > 
>> If you think finding COBOL programmers is hard what do you think the
>> 
>> availability of MACRO-11 programmers is like?  :-)
>> 
>
>There are still some of us around...
>
>I have had people comment about writing/modifying MACRO32 on the IA64 system though.  Nothing like writing "assembler" then using a compiler.  For us old folks, that still seems odd.

At least, it does work and it works quite well. 

FWIW, just the other day I came across a VAX Macro instruction that did NOT
behave properly on Alpha but it seems have been corrected on Itanium.  Back
on a VAX to verify it, the Alpha is not behaving properly.  On Itanium, it's
doing the correct thing.

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