Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-28 Thread Peter Sylvester
Hi, At least since 50 years it is understood that structured programming does'nt mean goto less. D. Knuth's response to Dijkstra explains other things:     All the examples are about 15 lines. Knuth shows different versions of the same algo.     As long as you have 15 lines, you can find

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-27 Thread Seymour J Metz
Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Bob Bridges [robhbrid...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2022 5:43 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Assembler courses You may be right; I've never had occasion to try write OO programs on the mainframe. But when I

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-27 Thread Seymour J Metz
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Mike Schwab [mike.a.sch...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2022 11:28 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Assembler courses On a screen, wouldn't PF keys be a kind of Object programming? And how

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-27 Thread Seymour J Metz
Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Bernd Oppolzer [bernd.oppol...@t-online.de] Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2022 1:42 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Assembler courses I try to be not dogmatic about GOTO statements, in fact, I am coding COBOL in my money (everyday

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-26 Thread Robin Vowels
On 2022-09-27 12:14, Hank Oerlemans wrote: My extremely unhelpful advice ? Chuck them in the deep end ! When I was 20 my lovely German boss said write a channel program to scan the CA-1 TMC for some criteria. Many weeks later with BALR and USING and whatever and a hardcopy IPCS manual it worked

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-26 Thread Hank Oerlemans
My extremely unhelpful advice ? Chuck them in the deep end ! When I was 20 my lovely German boss said write a channel program to scan the CA-1 TMC for some criteria. Many weeks later with BALR and USING and whatever and a hardcopy IPCS manual it worked and that's the most complex thing I've ever

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-26 Thread Peter Sylvester
On 26/09/2022 22:40, Seymour J Metz wrote: a && b isif a THEN b else TRUE ? Shirley a && b isif a THEN b else FALSE Short circuit operators can be very nice. Ouups; yes.   thanks. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-26 Thread Seymour J Metz
AIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Peter Sylvester [peter.sylves...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2022 3:52 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Assembler courses Hi, I have the feeling that the author of https://secure-web.cisco.com/1Z9n56_GZoR00w22sogI3_RQ0O39K_O1yP3HvzHAo2f

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-26 Thread Seymour J Metz
] on behalf of Steve Smith [sasd...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2022 10:13 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Assembler courses lol... We definitely need a guide to refracturing code. More seriously, a decent commentary on how to use goto "correctly" would be a nice th

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-26 Thread Bernd Oppolzer
What I like about my "garbage language": since 2011 it is "my garbage language"; I can add new control statements to it and thus eliminate the need for gotos most of the time, because the old use cases of goto now have new solutions (similar to C). And for many other needs like string handling,

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-25 Thread Steve Smith
I did read that, I like reading LT... you don't spend much time wondering what his position really is. While it covers an important use case, and actually covers it pretty thoroughly, it's not a didactic document. Or maybe it is, but I can't find the word I want. Pedagogical maybe? Anyway,

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-25 Thread David Crayford
From the book "Linux Device Drivers". Error recovery is sometimes best handled with the goto statement. We normally hate to use goto, but in our opinion, this is one situation where it is useful. Careful use of goto in error situations can eliminate a great deal of complicated,

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-25 Thread David Crayford
On 26/9/22 10:13, Steve Smith wrote: lol... We definitely need a guide to refracturing code. More seriously, a decent commentary on how to use goto "correctly" would be a nice thing to see. Here you go, just in case you missed it the first time I posted

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-25 Thread Steve Smith
lol... We definitely need a guide to refracturing code. More seriously, a decent commentary on how to use goto "correctly" would be a nice thing to see. In my opinion, using it like REXX intends the signal statement to be used is fair. I can't at the moment recall much else that I'd normally

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-25 Thread David Crayford
Here is another example of using a cleanup stack https://github.com/eclipse-openj9/openj9-omr/blob/openj9/port/win32/omrsignal.c. That's how we write our C code. SP evangelists would be inclined to nest if statements which would be harder to read and wouldn't pass code review in my team. Of

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-25 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 26 Sep 2022 01:21:03 +, Seymour J wrote: >As a companion to "Structured Programming with go to Statements" by DONALD E. >KNUTH, I see a great need for "Spaghetti Code Without go to Statements". >BTDT,GTS. That's almost trivial. Refracture any spaghetti code as a single DO FOREVER

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-25 Thread Seymour J Metz
Sunday, September 25, 2022 8:38 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Assembler courses According to Linus you’ve been brainwashed by using a garbage language https://

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-25 Thread David Crayford
According to Linus you’ve been brainwashed by using a garbage language https://koblents.com/Ches/Links/Month-Mar-2013/20-Using-Goto-in-Linux-Kernel-Code/ > On 26 Sep 2022, at 1:43 am, Bernd Oppolzer wrote: > > I try to be not dogmatic about GOTO statements, > in fact, I am coding COBOL in my

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-25 Thread Bob Bridges
I'm glad someone else is saying this about GOTOs. I was a COBOL developer for years before getting into ACF2, and argued strenuously (and futilely) for limited use of GOTOs at a shop where they'd all fallen for the religious belief that GOTO is Satan. Three clear places where a GOTO can make

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-25 Thread Peter Sylvester
Hi, I have the feeling that the author of https://github.com/eclipse-openj9/openj9/blob/master/runtime/vm/classsupport.c. might not know/like/understand the && operator. The huge case testing length and values can be contracted into a single if. using     (len = 3 && memcmp(v,"ddd",3)    Ah

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-25 Thread Bernd Oppolzer
After looking at your example at https://github.com/eclipse-openj9/openj9/blob/master/runtime/vm/classsupport.c I would like to comment: the "goto done" in the first function is only necessary, because in C the return statement serves two purposes: - setting the return value - returning

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-25 Thread Bernd Oppolzer
I try to be not dogmatic about GOTO statements, in fact, I am coding COBOL in my money (everyday) job, and there are lots of GO TOs around; I try to remove them, when I do larger refactoring, but if not, I leave them untouched. But now for another GOTO story. When I started my Stanford

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-25 Thread Tom Brennan
I can work without goto for a long time, until suddenly I need it, usually when coding some kind of error logic. Then I'll have to either duplicate code or scoot a section into its own subroutine for no other reason than the lack of a goto. But yeah, it can be confusing later if used when

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-25 Thread David Crayford
Another thing that makes me incredibly dubious about some of the opinions in these videos is the hackneyed nonsense about "goto considered harmful". The original paper was misunderstood in that all goto statements are harmful and brainwashed a generation. Some of these videos present a trivial

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-25 Thread David Crayford
On 25/09/2022 3:56 pm, Peter Sylvester wrote: On 25/09/2022 05:02, David Crayford wrote: There's some interesting videos here. All entertaining in their own way. It's like any dogma, if you want to believe then you will. If you have spent your entire career using structured programming you

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-25 Thread Peter Sylvester
On 25/09/2022 05:02, David Crayford wrote: There's some interesting videos here. All entertaining in their own way. It's like any dogma, if you want to believe then you will. If you have spent your entire career using structured programming you probably think "hell yeah"! Is such a person the

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-24 Thread David Crayford
On 24/09/2022 9:48 pm, Kirk Wolf wrote: On Fri, Sep 23, 2022, at 6:09 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Fri, 23 Sep 2022 23:18:21 +0200, Bernd Oppolzer wrote: Many thanks for these links; I especially appreciate the tutorials by Brian Will "Object-Oriented Programming is Bad",

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-24 Thread Mike Schwab
On a screen, wouldn't PF keys be a kind of Object programming? And how about a online transaction, where one screen updates a particular table in your overall system. And the different transaction ids would be like an Object / function. Just leaves the batch job to use structure programming,

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-24 Thread David Crayford
There's some interesting videos here. All entertaining in their own way. It's like any dogma, if you want to believe then you will. If you have spent your entire career using structured programming you probably think "hell yeah"! On 20/09/2022 5:46 pm, Peter Sylvester wrote: Anyway, here

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-24 Thread David Crayford
On 25/09/2022 1:12 am, Bernd Oppolzer wrote: IMO, there are some really interesting use cases for such techniques, for example - sort routines where the comparison functions is generic, that is, a function pointer - same for search routines - same for dynamic arrays of structs, indexed by

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-24 Thread David Crayford
On 25/09/2022 1:38 am, Bernd Oppolzer wrote: The link to the video once again, because it was damaged by my eMail client: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRTfhkiAqPw Brian's videos are entertaining but his modus operandi is to take some really bad code and then demonstrate how to refactor it

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-24 Thread Peter Sylvester
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFv8Wm2HdNM All software should be done top down except for the first time Before writing reusable functions/classes/... write usable ones. :-) On 24/09/2022 19:57, Tom Brennan wrote: Since we're drifting, I'm remembering another method I think they called

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-24 Thread Tom Brennan
Since we're drifting, I'm remembering another method I think they called Structured Programming or maybe Top Down Programming. I was never an application programmer so I don't know all the terms. But I think I came across it one day while helping a COBOL programmer. Their main routine

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-24 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sat, 24 Sep 2022 19:12:39 +0200, Bernd Oppolzer wrote: > >In C, I did this using function pointers. >In Pascal, I can pass procedures or functions to procedure parameters >(procedures passed as >parameters to other procedures), which is virtually the same as function >pointers, but IMO looks

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-24 Thread Bernd Oppolzer
The link to the video once again, because it was damaged by my eMail client: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRTfhkiAqPw HTH, kind regards Bernd Am 24.09.2022 um 19:12 schrieb Bernd Oppolzer: Sorry for this topic drift, but this is interesting, anyway. IMO, there are some really

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-24 Thread Gibney, Dave
t; Behalf Of Bernd Oppolzer > Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2022 10:13 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Assembler courses > > [EXTERNAL EMAIL] > > Sorry for this topic drift, but this is interesting, anyway. > > IMO, there are some really interesting use case

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-24 Thread Bernd Oppolzer
Sorry for this topic drift, but this is interesting, anyway. IMO, there are some really interesting use cases for such techniques, for example - sort routines where the comparison functions is generic, that is, a function pointer - same for search routines - same for dynamic arrays of

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-24 Thread Tony Harminc
On Fri, 23 Sept 2022 at 19:10, Paul Gilmartin < 042bfe9c879d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: Far worse is the attempt to use OO techniques in non-OO languages. > "Where is this function called?" > "A pointer to it is saved in a struct." > After that, it's anyone's guess. > Years ago I

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-24 Thread Kirk Wolf
On Fri, Sep 23, 2022, at 6:09 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On Fri, 23 Sep 2022 23:18:21 +0200, Bernd Oppolzer wrote: > > >Many thanks for these links; > > > >I especially appreciate the tutorials by Brian Will "Object-Oriented > >Programming is Bad", > >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM1iUe6IofM

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-23 Thread David Crayford
On 24/09/2022 7:09 am, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Fri, 23 Sep 2022 23:18:21 +0200, Bernd Oppolzer wrote: Many thanks for these links; I especially appreciate the tutorials by Brian Will "Object-Oriented Programming is Bad", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM1iUe6IofM Far worse is the attempt

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-23 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 23 Sep 2022 23:18:21 +0200, Bernd Oppolzer wrote: >Many thanks for these links; > >I especially appreciate the tutorials by Brian Will "Object-Oriented >Programming is Bad", >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM1iUe6IofM > Far worse is the attempt to use OO techniques in non-OO languages.

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-23 Thread Bernd Oppolzer
Many thanks for these links; I especially appreciate the tutorials by Brian Will "Object-Oriented Programming is Bad", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM1iUe6IofM the tips how to improve procedural programming from minute 33 ca. This is so true, but certain tips require a language more

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-22 Thread David Crayford
Another example is the pthread library which uses a naming convention that describes the context it's operating on. For example, pthread_mutex_lock, pthread_cond_wait etc. I've used this kind of naming convention myself but I only write Metal/C these days and C++ when using LE. FWIW, the

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-22 Thread Charles Mills
You want an example of object oriented design on the mainframe? I have = no idea what the implementation language is but it could be PL/X, = assembler, C, etc. It does not matter. (It is clearly not a pure C++ = library.) IBM System SSL, a crypto library on z/OS. Every call operates on one

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-21 Thread Paul Gorlinsky
https://www.cbttape.org/ftp/asmbook/alnv200.pdf - Assembler Language Programming for IBM System z Servers By John R Ehrman. https://www.amazon.com/Simplified-Approach-Assembly-Language-Programming/dp/0138101191 - I still have my copy https://www.cbttape.org - has lots of examples Take

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-21 Thread Paul Gorlinsky
The LE runtime libraries are designed to be called by Assembler programs as well as all currently support compilers. As a developer, you can pick which language is best for the particular task and have that routine be callable by other programs. The book, z/OS Language Environment Writing

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-21 Thread Steve Smith
imho, using the LE framework is an excellent idea for beginning assembler programming. You can actually do "Hello World!" in just a few more lines than C. And it lets you defer the gritty details of linkage and DCBs and such until after some visible results are obtained. It's almost as easy as

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-21 Thread John McKown
On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 4:32 PM Tom Brennan wrote: > Spitting out messages with formatted values was always a hassle for me > in assembler. So years ago I wrote some code to somewhat mimic printf, > and never looked back. Invoked by macros something like this: > > #PRINTF SYSPRINT,'THIS IS

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-20 Thread David Crayford
On 20/09/2022 10:56 pm, Michael Stein wrote: I have been coding in C++ and Java for so long OOP is second nature to me now. Well, in C++ I prefer the interfaces using templates. Java has morphed into into a hybrid OO/FP language since the introduction of the Streams API in Java 8. It's common

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-20 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 20 Sep 2022 14:31:55 -0700, Tom Brennan wrote: >... >in assembler. So years ago I wrote some code to somewhat mimic printf, >and never looked back. Invoked by macros something like this: > > #PRINTF SYSPRINT,'THIS IS LINE %D OF %D',VAR1,VAR2 > We once did something similar but

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-20 Thread Tom Brennan
Spitting out messages with formatted values was always a hassle for me in assembler. So years ago I wrote some code to somewhat mimic printf, and never looked back. Invoked by macros something like this: #PRINTF SYSPRINT,'THIS IS LINE %D OF %D',VAR1,VAR2 #PRINTF SYSPRINT,'THIS IS STRING %S

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-20 Thread Michael Stein
> I have been coding in C++ and Java for so long OOP is second nature to me > now. Well, in C++ I prefer the interfaces using templates. Java has morphed > into into a hybrid OO/FP language since the introduction of the Streams API > in Java 8. It's common now not to code imperative loop

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-20 Thread Seymour J Metz
on behalf of David Crayford [dcrayf...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2022 3:09 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Assembler courses On 19/09/2022 7:59 am, Charles Mills wrote: >> I've never had occasion to try write OO programs on the mainframe. >> to me it seems that the

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-20 Thread Peter Sylvester
Hi, 49 years ago I 'stumbled' over Simula 67 (see video 1), well, at the university "informatik 1" course. I had gotten an Algol60 book given to me by my math teacher 2 years earlier. The student a year older learned PL/1. WE had an /168 and the Simula 67 system from the NCC (you can find it

Assembler courses

2022-09-20 Thread Colin Paice
For me, the challenge with learning assembler is how do you input and output. I would have an assembler program called from a C program - and teach them how to use the C "printf" function from assembler to output data. The class can then focus on the assembler code, and get it working. I

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-20 Thread David Crayford
On 19/09/2022 7:59 am, Charles Mills wrote: I've never had occasion to try write OO programs on the mainframe. to me it seems that the chief value of classes and class methods is a way of organizing my subroutines and functions and limiting their scope to particular uses which seems to me would

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-20 Thread Mike Schwab
Yes. A 4K difference between registers would be USING label,R12,R11,R10 etc. On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 12:22 AM Brian Westerman wrote: > > Can you do that and use multiple base regs? > > Brian > > On Mon, 19 Sep 2022 07:32:07 -0500, Paul Gilmartin > wrote: > > >On Sun, 18 Sep 2022 22:03:34

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-19 Thread Brian Westerman
Can you do that and use multiple base regs? Brian On Mon, 19 Sep 2022 07:32:07 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >On Sun, 18 Sep 2022 22:03:34 -0700, Ed Jaffe wrote: >> >>I prefer to use: >> >>LARL  R12,Constants >>USING (Constants,Constants_End),R12 >> >>thereby dispensing with permanent base

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-19 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sun, 18 Sep 2022 22:03:34 -0700, Ed Jaffe wrote: > >I prefer to use: > >LARL  R12,Constants >USING (Constants,Constants_End),R12 > >thereby dispensing with permanent base register coverage for program >executable code. > Constants LOCTR , and LTORG ... then become your friends. -- gil

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-18 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 9/18/2022 4:15 PM, Tom Harper wrote: Sometimes R15 contains the entry point. If the routine receives control from ATTACHX or LINKX, for instance, and if it is to run in AMODE(64), then it does not. A better solution is to use LARL R12,PROGNAME USING PROGNAME, R12 which has no dependency

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-18 Thread Bob Bridges
Yes, I didn't think to put it that way at first but it's a good way of phrasing it: In OO coding I'm creating a number of packages, and I find its easier to organize their interactions (and to remember how they must interact) when I do it that way. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-18 Thread Charles Mills
> I've never had occasion to try write OO programs on the mainframe. > to me it seems that the chief value of classes and class methods is a > way of organizing my subroutines and functions and limiting their > scope to particular uses which seems to me would be useful in some > mainframe

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-18 Thread John McKown
On Sun, Sep 18, 2022, 18:16 Tom Harper wrote: > Sometimes R15 contains the entry point. > > If the routine receives control from ATTACHX or LINKX, for instance, and > if it is to run in AMODE(64), then it does not. > > A better solution is to use > > LARL R12,PROGNAME > USING PROGNAME, R12 > >

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-18 Thread Tom Harper
Sometimes R15 contains the entry point. If the routine receives control from ATTACHX or LINKX, for instance, and if it is to run in AMODE(64), then it does not. A better solution is to use LARL R12,PROGNAME USING PROGNAME, R12 which has no dependency on R15. Tom Harper Phoenix Software

Re: Net nanny voodoo [was: RE: Assembler courses]

2022-09-18 Thread Tony Harminc
On Sun, 18 Sept 2022 at 12:16, Farley, Peter x23353 < 031df298a9da-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Wow, talk about "nanny state" link protection - have a gander at the > hugely complex mess that René's perfectly reasonable links to the IDCP and > Marist copies of Mr. Ehrman's opus

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-18 Thread Bob Bridges
You may be right; I've never had occasion to try write OO programs on the mainframe. But when I write classes in VBA, I'm not thinking primarily of sending messages between GUI objects (though you may argue that's exactly what I'm doing whether I think of it that way or not); to me it seems

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-18 Thread Mike Schwab
When you enter a program, R15 points to the first byte of PROGNAME. You usually have a USING R15,PROGNAME. If you are going to be calling OS functions or programs, you will copy R15 to another register (often R12), issue a USING R12,PROGNAME and DROP R15,PROGNAME. So when using a label within 4K

Re: Net nanny voodoo [was: RE: Assembler courses]

2022-09-18 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sun, 18 Sep 2022 16:35:57 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >Net Nannies embody an advanced technology known as Artificial Stupidity (AS); >this same technology can be seen in rext to voice and voice to text features, >as well as in filters that block legitimate medical sites while failing to

Re: Net nanny voodoo [was: RE: Assembler courses]

2022-09-18 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sun, 18 Sep 2022 18:51:56 +, Robert Prins wrote: >And ahem, human (self-censored) is not trimming the whole fluckin' mess >when you reply to posts. > Ergonomics. It wastes time and energy to press the Delete key so many times. And it may be illegal to remove the originator's legal notice

Re: Net nanny voodoo [was: RE: Assembler courses]

2022-09-18 Thread Robert Prins
And ahem, human (self-censored) is not trimming the whole fluckin' mess when you reply to posts. Robert -- Robert AH Prins robert(a)prino(d)org The hitchhiking grandfather Some REXX code for use on z/OS

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-18 Thread Tom Brennan
Ah... Visual Basic. OO certainly does make sense with Windows programming (and I assume other GUI's). The idea of the GUI writers to send messages back and forth between "objects" is genius. So each bit of code (say for a button or a text box object) just sits there doing nothing until a

Re: Net nanny voodoo [was: RE: Assembler courses]

2022-09-18 Thread Seymour J Metz
@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Net nanny voodoo [was: RE: Assembler courses] Wow, talk about "nanny state" link protection - have a gander at the hugely complex mess that René's perfectly reasonable links to the IDCP and Marist copies of Mr. Ehrman's opus turned into below. Someone else'

Net nanny voodoo [was: RE: Assembler courses]

2022-09-18 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
rame Discussion List On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2022 10:59 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Assembler courses I haven't read it, but surely nobody could question the credentials of the author (ז״ל). I miss him. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz https://urld

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-18 Thread Seymour J Metz
Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Bob T Roller [044ef325f6c3-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu] Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2022 3:17 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Assembler courses Learning assembler is like taking latin in high school. It might help you

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-18 Thread Seymour J Metz
: Saturday, September 17, 2022 5:55 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Assembler courses Never used PASCAL? I'm surprised. I haven't learned it yet, but when I first heard about it (it had associative arrays, which I thought of as pretty darned cool) I was fascinated. But for the first

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-18 Thread Seymour J Metz
] on behalf of Bob Bridges [robhbrid...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2022 9:11 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Assembler courses Twenty years ago I wrote a few programs for Excel, and didn't see what all the fuss was about: "object-oriented" didn't seem very diff

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-18 Thread Seymour J Metz
[rene.vincent.jan...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2022 9:21 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Assembler courses I don’t know if someone on the assembler list mentioned this already, but https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fidcp.marist.edu%2Fdocuments

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-18 Thread Peter Vels
Hi Bob, I think about a USING statement as a "promise" that a register will contain an appropriate address at runtime. The statement: USING MyArea,R9 means (to me): I promise that at runtime register 9 will contain the address of an area that is mapped (described) by the DSECT called

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-18 Thread René Jansen
I don’t know if someone on the assembler list mentioned this already, but https://idcp.marist.edu/documents/33945/44724/Assembler.V2.alntext+V2.00.pdf/ad61965e-8485-65e1-f385-e5cd56f08c63?t=1551806232272

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-18 Thread Bob Bridges
Twenty years ago I wrote a few programs for Excel, and didn't see what all the fuss was about: "object-oriented" didn't seem very different from traditional programming that I'd been doing for 25 years. (At the same time I was frequently infuriated at the message "...does not support this

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-18 Thread David Spiegel
The 2nd edition is selling for $291.03. That's a lot of money for a book. On 2022-09-18 06:09, Arthur Fichtl wrote: You might take a look also at this book, author: Carmine A. Cannatello "Advanced assembler language and MVS interfaces (2nd ed.): for IBM systems and application programmers"

Assembler courses

2022-09-18 Thread Arthur Fichtl
You might take a look also at this book, author: Carmine A. Cannatello "Advanced assembler language and MVS interfaces (2nd ed.): for IBM systems and application programmers" https://dl.acm.org/profile/81100290810 -- Diese E-Mail wurde von Avast-Antivirussoftware auf Viren geprüft.

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-17 Thread Tom Brennan
On 9/17/2022 9:25 PM, Brian Westerman wrote: I had to take Latin as well, and while I never used it directly trying to communicate with anyone, it has been a great help over the years. Plus, it makes me not sound as dumb as I really am. Uh oh, maybe that's my problem :) I never learned any

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-17 Thread Brian Westerman
I had to take Latin as well, and while I never used it directly trying to communicate with anyone, it has been a great help over the years. Plus, it makes me not sound as dumb as I really am. Brian On Sat, 17 Sep 2022 22:52:14 -0400, David Spiegel wrote: >Hi Bob, >Based upon your remarks,

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2022-09-17 Thread Larry Chenevert
I used the Struble book also, at La Tech in the '70's (probably '75 or so).  Mine is of the second printing in 1971 and has a 1969 copyright and it is still on my bookshelf.  It is based on the 360; the transition from 360 to 370 was easy in those days..   The price stamped on the title page

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-17 Thread David Spiegel
Hi Bob, Based upon your remarks, it seems as if you're unfamiliar with Exits and reading dumps. BTW, I took Latin in high school and it helped me (albeit indirectly). Regards, David On 2022-09-17 15:17, Bob T Roller wrote: Learning assembler is like taking latin in high school. It might help

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2022-09-17 Thread Gibney, Dave
ber 17, 2022 1:30 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Assembler courses > > > I learned PL/I, WATFIV, FORTRAN, GPSS, assembler, and a few other > languages in college. Never used any of them. COBOL was an elective, which > I took, and used extensively for 25 year

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2022-09-17 Thread Charles Mills
TSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Bob Bridges Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2022 2:56 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Assembler courses Never used PASCAL? I'm surprised. I haven't learned it yet, but when I first heard about it (it had associative arrays, which I thought of as pretty darned

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-17 Thread rpinion865
Delac, that's a name I've not heard in a long, long time (Obi wan Kenobi). Sent from Proton Mail mobile Original Message On Sep 17, 2022, 10:40 PM, Bob Bridges wrote: > A textiles company that hired me in 1980 started me out with two DELTAK > courses (I sat in a room with

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-17 Thread Mike Schwab
t;It was the FORTRAN I learned in engineering college that I never used > > anywhere else. > > > > > >Peter > > > > > >-Original Message- > > >From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf > > Of Bob T Roller > > >Sent: Satur

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2022-09-17 Thread Bob Bridges
Never used PASCAL? I'm surprised. I haven't learned it yet, but when I first heard about it (it had associative arrays, which I thought of as pretty darned cool) I was fascinated. But for the first few years it was all BASIC, PL/1, a little FORTRAN. Later it was all COBOL and CLIST.

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2022-09-17 Thread Joe Monk
re 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 On Behalf > Of Bob T Roller > >Sen

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2022-09-17 Thread Brian Westerman
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 On Behalf Of >Bob T Roller >Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2022 3:17 PM >To: I

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-17 Thread Bob Bridges
A textiles company that hired me in 1980 started me out with two DELTAK courses (I sat in a room with video tapes for a few days), one in COBOL and the other in JCL. Got a solid grounding in both, and to this day it's a mystery to me how many professional mainframers can't do JCL. Many of

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2022-09-17 Thread Bob T Roller
n engineering college that I never used > anywhere else. > > Peter > > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of > Bob T Roller > Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2022 3:17 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Assembler c

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-17 Thread Bob Bridges
I'm with Mr Farley on this, or at least I would be if I had ever actually learned HLASM. I know assembler programmers who've been very useful in different projects I've been part of - and in my world (security, I mean) it's even more helpful because occasionally one wants to write or update an

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-17 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
Subject: AW: Assembler courses This could be interesting: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://github.com/adelosa/learnasm370__;!!Ebr-cpPeAnfNniQ8HSAI-g_K5b7VKg!I2imP9wOmcYJDEMYAGWcpDH5l3cYWjvbUpgzAh8aDfMqV7jLx7t2SYvXmMixpVVFu8sRvImdrWgxeeqmMQ$ best regards Mike -Ursprüngliche Nachricht

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2022-09-17 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
I learned in engineering college that I never used anywhere else. Peter -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bob T Roller Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2022 3:17 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Assembler courses Learning assembler is like

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2022-09-17 Thread Bob T Roller
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

AW: Assembler courses

2022-09-17 Thread Mike Beer
This could be interesting: https://github.com/adelosa/learnasm370 best regards Mike -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Im Auftrag von Mike Hochee Gesendet: Saturday, September 17, 2022 20:11 An: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Betreff: Re: Assembler courses Hey Gary

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