On 1/22/2018 7:44 AM, Jon Perryman wrote:
If anyone tells you C is superior to HLASM, don't believe it.

I agree with a lot of what you've written. We use SPMs for our coding (with FLOWASM of course) and a LOT of powerful macros for calling services, building tables, etc.

One thing I do like from C is that the compiler can optimize the object code for a particular generation of hardware -- automatically taking advantage of new instructions as they become available. In HLASM the instructions are hand-coded and therefore cannot be automatically optimized.

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