I learned that in 1981 during Assembler class.
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Sunday, September 3, 2023, 8:31 PM, Doug Fuerst <d...@bkassociates.net> wrote: Assembler is not machine language. Doug Fuerst ------ Original Message ------ >From "Bernd Oppolzer" <bernd.oppol...@t-online.de> To IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date 9/3/2023 17:16:05 PM Subject Re: Is the IBM Assembler List still alive >+1 > >and I believe, I said virtually the same before, that makes 2 persons 😀 > > >Am 03.09.2023 um 22:41 schrieb g...@gabegold.com: >>That "one person's experience" was widely shared among the VM community -- >>hundreds of people collectively helping their installations benefit from what >>assembler language enables. >> >>You might consider taking your own advice: 1 persons experience doesn’t prove >>anything. >> >>"The fact is..." is an assertion, not a fact. It's contradicted by a great >>many people who've used assembler to advance careers and benefit their >>employers. >> >>Given the number of critical bugs fixed by customers, and the number of >>customer system enhancements merged into IBM product code, sometimes NOT >>"making changes to delivered software" can be dangerous. >> >>Assembler -- machine language -- is what actually executes, no matter what >>high-level language or utility uses/produces it. So understanding it helps >>understand much broader concepts. >> >>Your not encountering it among your colleagues might speak more about you and >>your colleagues than assembler language itself. >> >>Why advocate ignorance of a fundamental part of the platform for which you're >>such a relentless cheerleader? >> >>This is a silly argument -- you dismiss and deprecate something you never >>learned; that's an uninformed position to take, no matter how many colleagues >>you've met in your many, many jobs. >> >>Surely it's a specialized skill -- which you never acquired -- but that >>doesn't make it unimportant. >> >>On Sun, 3 Sep 2023 16:37:39 +0000, Bill Johnson <mellonb...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> >>>1 persons experience doesn’t prove anything ... > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >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
