[Info-vax] Userland programming languages on VMS.

[Chris Townley]

On 28/01/2022 19:22, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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.
> 

Simon, I was not deriding anybody who does write this level of code - I 
did a small amount of Z80 assembler in the 80s, but do not want to go 
back there. I am an application programmer, so for me there should be no 
need for assembly programming!


-- 
Chris