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

[mcleanjoh at gmail.com]

On Wednesday, September 10, 2014 1:04:31 AM UTC+10, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> In article <c726b652-f7dd-4fb3-a5a3-d07b2fd2e939 at googlegroups.com>,
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> 	abrsvc <dansabrservices at yahoo.com> writes:
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> >> If you think finding COBOL programmers is hard what do you think the
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> >> availability of MACRO-11 programmers is like?  :-) 
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> > There are still some of us around...
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> OK, that makes at least two of us.  :-)
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> > 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.
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> I still do things in MACRO just for fun.  It can be a very relaxing passtime.
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It's also intellectually challenging and more useful than playing video games :-)

John