What is "Java"? If it's just the language, it's not that big. But if it's all 
of the classes as well, ...

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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of 
Matt Hogstrom <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 5, 2023 1:07 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Ray Mullins on Assembler demand.

Yup.  Context is King.  People talk about languages like Java, etc.  The real 
question in my opinion is what Runtime?  CICS, IMS, WebSphere, …   Language is 
only part of the equation; where it runs is the key.

Matt Hogstrom
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> On Sep 5, 2023, at 10:58, Tom Brennan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> The instructions, registers, etc. are not that difficult to learn.  It's the 
> macros, control blocks, subsystems, interrupts, memory layout, SVC's, (and I 
> could go on and on) that can be the real value in doing ASM programming.
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