I learned PL/I, WATFIV, FORTRAN, GPSS, assembler, and a few other languages in college. Never used any of them. COBOL was an elective, which I took, and used extensively for 25 years. One professor, when asked what JCL was by a fellow student, said it’s unimportant and will be irrelevant. JCL was probably the most important & used “language” of my career. Which I learned via the EDS OPD program.
Sent from Proton Mail for iOS On Sat, Sep 17, 2022 at 3:29 PM, Farley, Peter x23353 <0000031df298a9da-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > 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. > > Peter > > -----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 > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Assembler courses > > 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. > > Sent from Proton Mail for iOS > > On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 10:11 PM, Gary Weinhold <weinh...@dkl.com> wrote: > >> To help a person who has COBOL and C language experience learn to write >> assembler, I would like them to learn from the start both reentrant and >> baseless coding techniques. Is there training available that assumes the >> instruction set available on the z12 is the starting point and that teaches >> reentrancy as the norm? >> >> (Cross-posted to IBM-Main and Assembler-list) >> >> Gary Weinhold >> Senior Application Architect >> DATAKINETICS | Data Performance & Optimization >> Phone:+1.613.523.5500 x216 >> Email: weinh...@dkl.com > -- > > This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the > addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If > the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized > representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any > dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have > received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail > and delete the message and any attachments from your system. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
