[Info-vax] Assembly languages

[Hein RMS van den Heuvel]

On Saturday, April 9, 2022 at 2:51:56 PM UTC-4, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2022-04-09, Bill Gunshannon <bill.gu... at gmail.com> wrote: 
:
> 
> And with that experience, I believe the time for assembly language is 
> well and truly past, unless it's needed for something specific such 
> as some inline assembly fragment to access a CPU-specific register 
> (for example), or really low-level stuff such as the initial interrupt 

I agree for production use, but disagree as a general rule notably for OpenVMS.
It's the only 'language' every single OpenVMS system has available.
I have a dozen or so small tools I needed over the years.
Silly things like a 'strings' program, a patch tool for RMS indexed files, and more.
Using Macro I can provide them as text to customers who would not readily accept binaries.

Hein.