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

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <bbd8c85c-df78-41d0-8c74-16e8b0964b3c at googlegroups.com>,
	mcleanjoh at gmail.com writes:
> On Wednesday, September 10, 2014 1:04:31 AM UTC+10, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> 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...
>> 
>> OK, that makes at least two of us.  :-)
>> 
>> > 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.
>> 
>> I still do things in MACRO just for fun.  It can be a very relaxing passtime.
>> 
> 
> It's also intellectually challenging and more useful than playing video games :-)
> 

OH, I do that to.  MineCraft.  But not lately.  :-(

bill

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