[cctalk] Re: What constitutes a dead computer language

[Paul Koning via cctalk]

> On Jun 17, 2026, at 11:55 AM, Mark Green via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> 
> wrote:
> 
> I recently reviewed a college program that had a COBOL course. It’s not quite 
> dead in academia.

Speaking of academia: clearly any "academic" who claims Assembler is dead is 
unqualified for the job.  It may be true that not very much application code is 
written in assembler.  But it should be obvious that competence in assembler is 
absolutely necessary in order to build a compiler -- in particular, a compiler 
back-end.  

        paul