Re: Real programmers ...

[dhandy@xxxxxxxxxxx (Douglas Handy)]

Ken,

>Back on the S/34, and on the S/36 before we bought assembler,
>I used to do just about that.  

Me too!  Including the relocation dictionary records.  I came close to
writing a S/34 assembler in RPG II because the assembler compiler was
so expensive.  But I decided not to bother and just penciled my 
routines in assembler then hand converted to machine code.  The S/34
had such a small instruction set it was really pretty easy to do.

Writing in machine code (or even assembler) definately helps you
understand the machine better.  And I think you end up becoming a
better HLL programmer from the experience, not that I really recommend
it to anyone.

Doug
+---
| This is the RPG/400 Mailing List!
| To submit a new message, send your mail to RPG400-L@midrange.com.
| To subscribe to this list send email to RPG400-L-SUB@midrange.com.
| To unsubscribe from this list send email to RPG400-L-UNSUB@midrange.com.
| Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com
+---END