Twenty-odd years ago, when I was still on the "Applications side", I interviewed for one job at which programmers were given the option to code in COBOL, PL/I or C. I asked, "What about Assembler?" The interviewer replied, "Anybody who even thinks about Assembler ought to be taken out and shot!"That's when I started looking for (and soon found) an opportunity to move to the "Systems side". -jc-
Oh, how that rings true. Next January will be the 37th anniversary of the FIRST time someone said to me, "don't waste your time learning assembler, it will be completely obsolete within four or five years." If I had a dollar for every time I've heard that (or a variation of it) since . . . wow. What a pile of money that would be.
And with that lead-in, I bet you can guess how I still make my living. :) David ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
