[Info-vax] Userland programming languages on VMS.

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-01-28, Chris Townley <news at cct-net.co.uk> 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, 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!
>

Actually, if you look again, you will see I was agreeing with you
and the above wasn't in response to you. :-)

Sometimes people say you are only criticising something because you
don't really understand it. I headed that off by pointing out my
experience with them and hence my opinions come from knowledge but
I should really have added it to the end of the previous reply... :-)

Simon.

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