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

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2014-09-10 02:37, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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. :-)

Who said I didn't know modern architectures? :-)
I have mostly avoided x86, but I've worked a lot on MIPS, fooled around 
some with SPARC, Alpha and PowerPC. I've mostly tried to avoid Itanium, 
and brushed a little bit with HPPA.
(And god knows how many older processors I've worked with, but the only 
one I regularly work on today is the Z80.)

I still consider MACRO-11 to be nice and easy, and preferrably to 
everything else. And writing in assembly language makes a lot of sense 
for the things I do...

	Johnny

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