If I’m still alive in 5 years, I’m going to laugh at these kind of “it can’t be done” comments.
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Sunday, September 3, 2023, 7:07 PM, Jeremy Nicoll <jn.ls.mfrm...@letterboxes.org> wrote: On Sun, 3 Sep 2023, at 23:59, Bill Johnson wrote: > Easy, the Vendors will have it set up for you to fill in some > variables. And if the variables they defined don't cover the /site/-specific needs (that the vendors know nothing about)? > On Sunday, September 3, 2023, 6:48 PM, Jeremy Nicoll > <jn.ls.mfrm...@letterboxes.org> wrote: > > On Sun, 3 Sep 2023, at 23:41, Bill Johnson wrote: >> Anyone considering assembler training first off will be hard pressed to >> find any training classes, and in 5 years AI will be able to produce >> better assembler programs than anyone here can write. > > How will anyone spec for the AI precisely what an assembler routine > has to do? > > Suppose it's an exit that has to support a mix of specific vendor > software and work in a site-specific way? > > I'm not saying it's impossible; it just strikes me that whoeever codes > the spec (in some yet to be imagined formal form) will in some sense > be writing the code. THEY need to understand the ins & outs... -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
