Clark Morris writes of the HLASM:
It may be low level, but does it also have to be brain-dead?
Characterizing the HLASM as brain-dead because it does not do strong typing
gives polemical expression to one point view. Other, different views are
possible; they are indeed entertained by experienced people.
I, for one, loathe strong typing. In my own code I do data-type punning
routinely, and I should not wish to see the HLASM converted into as C-lilke
language that made this gratuitously difficult.
The whole question whether the HLASM or any assembly language is now a
suitable vehicle for use by novices is, I think, an open one. Let them
write C or Pascal! Devoting any of the very limited resources available for
maintaining and enhancing the HLASM to childproofing it would come far down
on my personal wish list for it.
John Gilmore
Ashland, MA 01721-1817
USA
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