lol even the expert a couple of years ago said Assembler was dying. Every fact says it’s dying. Schools don’t even teach it any more. Almost zero job openings ask for it. But, you keep believing. SMH
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Tuesday, February 24, 2026, 11:25 AM, Len Rugen <[email protected]> wrote: I remember the stares from the younger generation when I pulled out my yellow 1976 System/370 reference card to show them the bit patterns of a 255.255.255.128 netmask :-) Len Rugen rugenl at yahoo.com GPG Public Key On Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 09:34:10 AM CST, Pommier, Rex <[email protected]> wrote: This could easily be flipped the other way too. "I don't use it therefore it isn't important". > On 24 Feb 2026, at 16:00, Dick Williams > <[email protected]> wrote: > > The “I use it so it must be important” syndrome. I would never recommend > learning it to anyone. A complete waste of time. Like learning Latin. > > > Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone > > > On Tuesday, February 24, 2026, 12:21 AM, Brian Westerman > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Nope, I use it most every day at at least a few of the sites I manage. > > Unless you are at a totally vanilla shop, I think assembler is a necessity. > > Brian > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
