> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On > Behalf Of Chase, John > Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 12:34 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: Effective pipeline programming [was:RE: METAL C: CodeGen > defeciency?] > > > -----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. > > -jc- That's what the internship was, took me a couple days to learn Cobol (perhaps my 4th or 5th language) just fresh out of the assembler class. A few years application programming, moved to general support of the production application environment for a few more, to systems programmer, been doing this ever since.
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