On 23 Apr 2009 12:37:25 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Steve Comstock >> >> Gibney, Dave wrote: >> > I'm not really an assembler programmer, but I've known this one >since >> > my earliest days. I'm sure it was in the 370 Pop I used in my one >and >> > only assembler programming class in 1979. Good class, I have a job >today >> > because I took that class, did an internship the next semester and >here >> > I am today :) >> >> Which is a good reason for every company to sponsor >> an Assembler class for every one of their z/OS >> programmers, right? We're ready. :) > >Long ago and far away, during a "group job interview" (aka "tour de >farce"), the "interviewer" stated that programmers could "code CICS >programs in their language of choice, whether it be C, COBOL or PL/I." >I asked, "Assembler?" He replied, "Anybody who even *thinks* about >coding in Assembler should be shot!" I bid them all Good Day and >departed immediately. > >To this day I have the impression that many "COBOL shops" actually >*fear* Assembler and/or anybody who professes even the slightest >proficiency with it.
As someone who coded Assembler sub-routines for use by COBOL programs and who has various Assembler exits on the JES3 and CBT tapes (from 17 - 24 years ago), I would try to limit the amount of assembler purely because it is different. It requires separate record descriptions if it is dealing with files and can be obscure as all get out. Also, if IBM would FINALLY support the 2002 COBOL standard, most of the justification for Assembler for applications would go away. > > -jc- > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO >Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
