[Info-vax] Userland programming languages on VMS.

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 1/28/22 15:30, Chris Townley wrote:
> 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!
> 
> 

That's funny...  I did a lot of applications programming in Assembler
back in the day.  PDP-11, Z80, M68K.  Did systems stuff later on but
I started as an Applications Programmer/Systems Analyst and while I
did a lot of COBOL, Fortran and Pascal often Assembler was needed
because of the limited resources of the machines.

bill