[Info-vax] Userland programming languages on VMS.

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-01-28, Chris Townley <news at cct-net.co.uk> wrote:
>
> I agree wholeheartedly. When I joined our programming team, I stated 
> that I would not learn Macro. When porting to Itanium, 3 modules of 
> Macro didn't work, so I rewrote them: 1 in Basic, 2 in C. All was good!
>
> Luckily they were well documented...
>

I actually do know _lots_ of assembly languages. My opinions are based
on knowledge, not ignorance.

A sample of assembly languages I have either used in the past or are using
these days for specialist things: Macro-11, Macro-32, Alpha, x86, ARM,
MIPS, and the odd 8/16 bit little MCUs.

Everything I use assembly language for these days is for specialist
reasons (ie: bare metal startup, bare metal interrupt handlers, getting
access to specialist hardware registers from a program, etc) and I switch
to at least C as soon as possible.

Simon.

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