On Wed, 2026-06-17 at 13:55 -0400, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: > > > > On Jun 17, 2026, at 11:55 AM, Mark Green via cctalk > > <[email protected]> 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.
A bit tangential, but… speaking of Assembler, I remember hearing decades ago that Multics was 85% PL/1 and 15% assembler. Has anybody gotten Multics running on modern hardware, such as Intel? — probably a better platform for it than the GE 645 or Honeywell 6180.
