John,
I was wondering, we are converting our COBOL stcs to C ...long story..we need 
the multi-threading capability, plus we have a lot of assembler called 
routines..I prefer assembler , learning C not a maven in it yet..a rookie..lol

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Scott Ford
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On Mar 30, 2012, at 11:10 AM, "McKown, John" <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> Nope. I'm not much into COBOL. I guess the current version is quite a bit 
> better than the stuff I learned long ago. But I still shudder when I look at 
> the assembler emitted. And I haven't found any compile parameters to improve 
> it. A few years ago, we had the C compiler. I was fairly well impressed with 
> its code generation.
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List
>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Scott Ford
>> Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 9:54 AM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: curiosity question: How much interest in writing
>> / using DLLs in assembler?
>>
>> John,
>>
>> Have you done threaded COBOL...?
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>> Scott Ford
>> Senior Systems Engineer
>> www.identityforge.com
>>
>>

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