A few years back, after I ported PCRE back to the mainframe (no USS... real old
mainframe), I thought about a more challenging task, like porting the R
language back to the mainframe. I asked some questions around and I was
advised not to take on this task. And the reason was that behind the beautiful
(sic) veneer of C and the R language itself, the rest is... You've guessed,
good old Fortran! Do you remember the 1970's era mathematical/scientific
Fortran library? Well, nobody is courageous enough to even try to rewrite it
in any new language. And I was told that IBM did not bother to upgrade the
mainframe Fortran, so it might not be up to the task anymore.
Ze'ev Atlas
From: "Duffy Nightingale, SS" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, November 4, 2015 8:14 PM
Subject: Re: New job for you
I would LOVE that job!
Duffy Nightingale
> On Nov 4, 2015, at 7:26 AM, [email protected] wrote:
>
> I have found that knowing ASM on 360, it was easy to learn ASM on S/34 &
> 7094. I did patches on machines by other manufacturers. All one needs is
> the equivalent of PoOp. And in some cases an octal conversion table.
>
> I think of ASM as a paradigm (or dare I say meme) that can be implemented
> on any architecture. HLASM just has the best macro
> processor/infrastructure.
>
> Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. - John
> F. Kennedy
> Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy ride. - Bette Davis (as
> character Margo Channing) _All About Eve_1950
> Furious activity is no substitute for understanding. - H. H. Williams
> Our greatest danger in life is in permitting the urgent things to crowd
> out the important. - Charles E. Hummel
> Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
>
> IBM Mainframe Assembler List <[email protected]> wrote on
> 11/04/2015 10:11:29 AM:
>
>> From: Gary Weinhold <[email protected]>
>> To: [email protected]
>> Date: 11/04/2015 10:13 AM
>> Subject: Re: New job for you
>> Sent by: IBM Mainframe Assembler List <[email protected]>
>>
>> There's been an update indicating someone has been hired, but they're
>> still accepting resumes. And it's evidently not "our" assembler
>> language: "purpose-built General Electric interrupt-driven processors"
>>
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/31/brush_up_on_your_fortran/
>>
>> Gary Weinhold
>>
>>
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>>> On 2015-11-04 09:50, [email protected] wrote:
>>> This came from my brother. He was a sysprog before going to the dark
>>> side. I am still employed
>>>
>>> NASA is looking for you
>>> http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a17991/voyager-1-voyager-2-
>> retiring-engineer/
>>> bl
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