Assembler is not machine language.
Doug Fuerst
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From "Bernd Oppolzer" <[email protected]>
To [email protected]
Date 9/3/2023 17:16:05 PM
Subject Re: Is the IBM Assembler List still alive
+1
and I believe, I said virtually the same before, that makes 2 persons 😀
Am 03.09.2023 um 22:41 schrieb [email protected]:
That "one person's experience" was widely shared among the VM community --
hundreds of people collectively helping their installations benefit from what assembler
language enables.
You might consider taking your own advice: 1 persons experience doesn’t prove
anything.
"The fact is..." is an assertion, not a fact. It's contradicted by a great many
people who've used assembler to advance careers and benefit their employers.
Given the number of critical bugs fixed by customers, and the number of customer system
enhancements merged into IBM product code, sometimes NOT "making changes to
delivered software" can be dangerous.
Assembler -- machine language -- is what actually executes, no matter what
high-level language or utility uses/produces it. So understanding it helps
understand much broader concepts.
Your not encountering it among your colleagues might speak more about you and
your colleagues than assembler language itself.
Why advocate ignorance of a fundamental part of the platform for which you're
such a relentless cheerleader?
This is a silly argument -- you dismiss and deprecate something you never
learned; that's an uninformed position to take, no matter how many colleagues
you've met in your many, many jobs.
Surely it's a specialized skill -- which you never acquired -- but that doesn't
make it unimportant.
On Sun, 3 Sep 2023 16:37:39 +0000, Bill Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
1 persons experience doesn’t prove anything ...
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