I hold firmly to the idea that students should be exposed to a variety of very different languages, and that students of assembler should be exposed to a variety of hardware architectures.
Real programmers do it in octal. Silly wabbit, trits are for kids. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Charles Mills [charl...@mcn.org] Sent: Friday, February 3, 2023 5:20 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: I want to cry At the risk of being contrarian relative to the culture of this group, how is that inherently worse than some programmers have never seen anything but Assembler -- 360/370/390/Z assembler at that? Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Bob Bridges Sent: Friday, February 3, 2023 10:10 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: I want to cry It is a little distressing, though (at least to me), to observe how many "programmers" never ~have~ seen anything but COBOL. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* How agitated I am when I am in the garden, and how happy I am to be so agitated. Nothing works just the way I thought it would, nothing looks just the way I had imagined it, and when sometimes it does look like what I had imagined (and this, thank God, is rare) I am startled that my imagination is so ordinary. -Jamaica Kincaid, _My Garden Book_ */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of zMan Sent: Friday, February 3, 2023 10:50 And unless COBOL is the only programming language you've ever seen, it seems unlikely that you wouldn't know what a variable is. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
