Tell that to our junior sysprog, who came out of NIU having learned assembler...
On Tue, Feb 24, 2026 at 10:28 AM Dick Williams < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- Jay Maynard ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
