I would guess that a lot of people here know at least
C/C++
CLIST
HLASM
Java
REXX
SAS
sh
with quite a few knowing more.
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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
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Subject: Re: Top 8 Reasons for using Python instead of REXX for z/OS
On 21/12/21 2:41 am, Seymour J Metz wrote:
> Six languages doesn't strike me as a lot; I know more assemblers than that.
> My position is that the CS curriculum should stress learning multiple,
> radically different, langages rather than the language du jour.
I know a lot more languages than 6. That number is what I've been paid
to code in. And I could care less about assembly languages as they are
not portable and hard to maintain. Coding in assembly in 2021 is
technical debt unless you absolutely have to.
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