Hi Bill,
Nice job cherry picking.
Since you don't know Assembler, here is a fact you are (willfully) omitting.
PL/S, PL/X, PL/AS etc. has never been been made available to all IBM
customers. (I know that select customers have successfully obtained a
licence.)
Unless one works at IBM, there is still a need.
Regards,
David
On 2023-09-12 08:16, Bill Johnson wrote:
“ Not to denigrate assembler programmers, or those that decide to take up
Sanskrit, but it is a dying art.”
Indeed.
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On Tuesday, September 12, 2023, 8:04 AM, Jon Butler <[email protected]>
wrote:
There will be a need for assembler programmers for quite a while, but mainly
because over the last forty years, and long after even COBOL II added functions
and a case construction in 1987, very, very clever people decided they would
write application modules in assembler... and not waste time with comments.
Today, when companies are trying to make their systems Highly Available...or
even convert to a cloud provider's service...no one has a clue what the modules
do. Many could have been easily replaced by COBOL's ADDRESS OF or LENGTH OF or
PL/I Pointers, but of course that would have been way too easy. Very few
application programs need to control channels.
When I was interviewed by the Db2 Utilities group at the Santa Teresa lab in San Jose
(Now Silicon Valley) in 2001, I said I suppose I needed to brush up on my assembler.
They laughed and said "no one uses assembler any more." All the Utilities were
written in PL/S, now PL/X.
Not to denigrate assembler programmers, or those that decide to take up
Sanskrit, but it is a dying art.
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