On 6/21/2012 7:36 AM, Sharuff Morsa3 wrote:
John took the initiative for creating High Level Assembler as a follow up product to the older Assembler F and Assembler H; and he is widely regarded as the "father of HLASM".
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Many thanks to John and the developers in Perth (many of them called John - at one point I'm sure you couldn't work on HLASM unless your name was John or possibly Craig). Without all of their hard work and dedication; the product, the language, its many facilities, HLASM would not be what it is today. Happy Birthday HLASM.
Happy Birthday, indeed and a hearty congratulations! Hard to believe it's been 20 years already! For those interested in such things, see http://2012atlanta.share.org/WrapUpArticle.aspx "In Atlanta, SHARE recognized a long-time SHARE volunteer, gentleman and scholar, Dr. John R. Ehrman with the Distinguished Service Award. John has been a SHARE volunteer for over 40 years. His first SHARE event was in February 1964, and he has only missed two meetings since then in August 1965 and February 1966. John is the longest continuing attendee that SHARE has had! He served on the SHARE Board of Directors in 1972-73 and sketched out the initial design of the previous SHARE logo of the red 'S'. Most recently John has been serving as the Project Manager for the Assembler Project. He has won multiple best session awards, including for the Assembler Boot Camp, and has also been awarded the Distinguished Speaker Award. John is the 'father' and champion of the High Level Assembler and his work led to approval for its development in 1992. Congratulations John!" -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 831 Parkview Drive North El Segundo, CA 90245 310-338-0400 x318 [email protected] http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/
