Mine was 360 BAL and Varian 620i Assembler (debugging in machine code).
That's when I accelerated my search for higher level languages --
resulting in VFP.
Way too much work for such a little payoff.
Chet
Paul Hill wrote:
On 9/6/06, Hal Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
=>-----Original Message-----
=>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
=>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Hill
=>Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 17:46
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=>Subject: Re: [NF] Winroll - Useful Utility
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=>P.S. what sort of masochist write a Win32 app in assembler?
=>
=>Paul
=>
Assembler is the one language that has taken a bigger beating than
FoxPro.
It is the essence of the computer. A computer works only one way and
the simplest expression of that is Assembler. You are right there in
a front-row seat with your hands on the wheel and your foot on the
pedal. It's actually easier to learn than any other language because
there is not one bit of pretense.
I've programmed a hell of a lot of assembler in my time, mainly due to
a mispent youth. Gives you an unique insight. It's supprising how
many programmers cannot grasp bitwise operators, byte ordering of
integers, even boolean logic etc.
6809 & 68000 mainly, none of that nasty little-endian x86 stuff.
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