There are several situations where C is very programmer friendly but they tend to be straight forward situations with a small number of permutations. I worked on a product in C that had over 40 different callable functions that would have been far more manageable from HLASM macro's. All were variations of each other.
MVS I/O, IPCS, PC routines, VLF, APF and more would be difficult to use from a C program. Certainly it's possible in C but is it worth the effort. Jon. On Monday, January 22, 2018 4:54 AM, Dave Wade <[email protected]> wrote: Having lived in the Honeywell world of systems programming, where I "moved" from GMAP to B I would say that for many tasks "C" is superior to both "B" and Assembler. On the Honeywell we delivered many products and tool sets that we could not have done with the programming resource and machine time available using Assember code, even though GMAP had similar Macro tool kits to those in HLASM. You may wish to dispute this, but a typical programmer will be more productive in "C" than Assembler. Dave
