[Info-vax] Assembly languages

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 4/11/22 05:32, VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> 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.
> 

Actually, every file on every computer is just a string of bytes.
(or you could even say bits) Any additional formatting is just
overlayed on top.

bill