Having been doing this from the mid-60's to today, I would have to say it was "all of the above."
What I coded in the 60's would get me fired today. It was cutting edge then and trash today. We learned on the job. I went to a big university and then the only computer science course offered was something about programming an ANALOG computer. The assembler of today is something we could only dream about then. I am glad on the one hand that the "good old days" are in the past, and sad on the other hand because it was a lot more cutting edge. Chris Blaicher Phone: 512-340-6154 Mobile: 512-627-3803 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Kelly Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 10:25 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: History of Hard-coded Offsets (Was: TSSO problems) <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 [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
