[Info-vax] Assembly languages

[Richard Maher]

On 10/04/2022 10:44 pm, Hein RMS van den Heuvel wrote:
> 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.

  Remember when inner-mode code and protected sub-systems were essential.

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