<snip> Was it because there were a lot of inexperienced assembler programmers writing code? Was it because people thought the platform would not last and treated every program as a "throw away"? Was it due to limitations in the assembler itself? </snip>
Having been 'part of that problem', I believe that the last two statement are correct. The first one is definitely not true because there were some outstanding coder then. The assemble didn't take labels for lengths and displacement and, as mentioned, going thru fiche, to find displacement and lengths made it difficult enough. And 'throw away' could be part of the issue, as I remember out full time job was trying to keep the hardware and software up long enough to do coding. just a thought Jack Kelly 202-502-2390 (Office) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
