[Info-vax] [OT] Assembly languages, was: Re: Bliss was Re: Learning VMS application programming

[Simon Clubley]

On 2014-09-10, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
> On 2014-09-09 16:58, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>
>> If you think finding COBOL programmers is hard what do you think the
>> availability of MACRO-11 programmers is like?  :-)
>
> Meh. I program MACRO-11 almost every day already... It's not hard. :-)
>

$ set response/mode=good_natured

You people should get with the times and learn a modern assembly
language/architecture. :-)

Of the modern assembly languages I know or am at least familiar with:

x86:		Yuck!
8-bit PICs:	Super yuck!
HC08:		Way too basic; I left the architecture behind years ago
AVR:		Not bad for an 8-bit MCU
ARM:		Very nice; the sweet spot for a modern assembly language.
MIPS:		Rather too basic for my tastes.

The only use I have for assembly languages these days are the initial
post-powerup bootstrap code and interrupt handler wrappers/dispatchers
to C language interrupt handlers.

Of the modern assembly languages, the ARM architecture is by far the
best I've used. It's a really nice and elegant architecture.

People say nice things about PowerPC, but it doesn't have a hobbyist
ecosystem, so it's not a MCU I've ever looked at.

The MSP430 is supposed to be rather nice, but the range doesn't have
anything powerful enough in PDIP packaging for me to be interested
in it.

Simon.

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