I'm with Mr Farley on this, or at least I would be if I had ever actually learned HLASM. I know assembler programmers who've been very useful in different projects I've been part of - and in my world (security, I mean) it's even more helpful because occasionally one wants to write or update an exit.
I actually have written quite a bit in assembler, but it was a little on an old Motorola chip and a lot on the PDP-10; nothing for IBM mainframes. Yet, I should say; I still have ambitions that way. There are routines I'd write to interact with REXX if I had the knowledge. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* Back in the old days, most families were close-knit. Grown children and their parents continued to live together, under the same roof, sometimes in the same small, crowded room, year in and year out, until they died, frequently by strangulation. -Dave Barry */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Farley, Peter x23353 Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2022 15:29 My experience was the opposite of yours over a few more years (50). I learned assembler early via OJT at one of my first permanent jobs, and got to use it more and more as I moved to other employers. Knowing assembler got me in the door at more than one of those employers. It was the FORTRAN I learned in engineering college that I never used anywhere else. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Bob T Roller Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2022 3:17 PM Learning assembler is like taking latin in high school. It might help you on Jeopardy but will not be of much help in real life. I took assembler in college & never used it and never worked at an employer that used it. That’s a dozen+ employers over 45 years. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
