About 25% of our mainframe server code is written in C already but you still need HLASM to deal with the guts of z/OS. I have already told the lad to read the POPS but that's not enough, you need background in basic z/OS concepts, JCL, ISPF, Rexx, etc. The courses we have found provide this.
Cheers -Robin -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: 06 November 2013 02:06 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Aging Sysprogs = Aging Farmers >>> On 11/5/2013 at 12:54 PM, Ze'ev Atlas <zatl...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Adopt the methodology of the Unix, Linux and Windows echosystems, > abandon any assembly whatsoever, license C and write all code in that language. Not quite. Performance critical sections are sometimes still written in hand-crafted assembler, particularly in the Linux kernel. If it weren't for that, I would just as soon see the ability to embed assembler in C source code be removed from GCC. Putting assembler code in applications makes them a real pain to port to different operating systems and architectures, and so in general not cool. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
