My GE 1101 (1st level Gen Engineering) class was PASCAL programming on a DecSystem running TOPS20.
Never used it again. Joe On Sat, Sep 17, 2022 at 3:55 PM Brian Westerman < brian_wester...@syzygyinc.com> wrote: > ME Too!! I can't remember ever using my Fortran after the class was > over. Luckily the instructor also offered an assembler class that he > taught "on the side" for an extra $50. I still use the stuff he taught us > almost every day. > > Brian > > On Sat, 17 Sep 2022 19:29:01 +0000, Farley, Peter x23353 < > peter.far...@broadridge.com> 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 Fr , 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
