The course I took in 370 assembler out of the Struble book made learning COBOL At my 1st job (a paying internship) a trivial matter. Never looked back. I haven't counted the languages I've had occasion to use (or many I guess modify existing code in) in the last 42ish years.
I credit the Assembler course with the reason I've had a job all this time. And I've told the professor so. And, yes, I very rarely write it any more, but it's been handy at times. > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On > Behalf Of Bob T Roller > Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2022 1:30 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Assembler courses > > > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
