Re: IBM Documentation (Was z/OS IARV64)

2010-12-14 Thread john gilmore
Paul Gilmartin's recent post---I entirely agree with its substance---has suggested to me yet again that we must take care to distinguish o the HLASM proper, its quality and the quality of its documentation, from o those of other operating-system facilities that are implemented in assembly

Re: IBM Documentation (Was z/OS IARV64)

2010-12-13 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Dec 13, 2010, at 12:14, John Ehrman wrote: ... but I have a suspicion, which has been voiced here before, that IBM's internal use of PL/X instead of assembly language has led to significant deterioration in the currency of the assembly-language documentation that the rest of us, outside