My experience was the opposite of yours over a few more years (50). I learned assembler early via OJT at one of my first permanent jobs, and got to use it more and more as I moved to other employers. Knowing assembler got me in the door at more than one of those employers.
It was the FORTRAN I learned in engineering college that I never used anywhere else. Peter -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Bob T Roller Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2022 3:17 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Assembler courses Learning assembler is like taking latin in high school. It might help you on Jeopardy but will not be of much help in real life. I took assembler in college & never used it and never worked at an employer that used it. That’s a dozen+ employers over 45 years. Sent from Proton Mail for iOS On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 10:11 PM, Gary Weinhold <[email protected]> wrote: > To help a person who has COBOL and C language experience learn to write > assembler, I would like them to learn from the start both reentrant and > baseless coding techniques. Is there training available that assumes the > instruction set available on the z12 is the starting point and that teaches > reentrancy as the norm? > > (Cross-posted to IBM-Main and Assembler-list) > > Gary Weinhold > Senior Application Architect > DATAKINETICS | Data Performance & Optimization > Phone:+1.613.523.5500 x216 > Email: [email protected] -- This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and delete the message and any attachments from your system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
