[Info-vax] Assembly languages

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In article <82ee4212-d4a9-4178-b86d-ab233d49fc9cn at googlegroups.com>, Hein RMS van den Heuvel <heinvandenheuvel at gmail.com> writes:
>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.

RMS CDC? ;)


>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.

Careful, there are those here that believe all files should be flat streams
of bytes.

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