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<blockquote data-quote="alfredo_buscatti" data-source="post: 298085" data-attributes="member: 36"><p>I programmed in Assembler 360 for 10 years. Guess that marks me an old fart. I had the damnedest time learning it. Imagine teaching someone about registers in two hours and then turning them loose in the lab writing a program that demanded register usage. It took me two years to understand a dsect. When I learned that "F" in the high-order nibble was needed to represent a positive number, I almost fainted. It took me two years of on-the-job exposure to be as good in Assembler as it had taken me six weeks in school in COBOL. But after two years on the job it was like programming in anything else. Sadly where I'm located, after the year 2000 frenzy the market for Assembler programming died. Only the banks and insurance companies kept their legacy code and demanded proficiency in their third-party software, which could only be learned working for them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="alfredo_buscatti, post: 298085, member: 36"] I programmed in Assembler 360 for 10 years. Guess that marks me an old fart. I had the damnedest time learning it. Imagine teaching someone about registers in two hours and then turning them loose in the lab writing a program that demanded register usage. It took me two years to understand a dsect. When I learned that "F" in the high-order nibble was needed to represent a positive number, I almost fainted. It took me two years of on-the-job exposure to be as good in Assembler as it had taken me six weeks in school in COBOL. But after two years on the job it was like programming in anything else. Sadly where I'm located, after the year 2000 frenzy the market for Assembler programming died. Only the banks and insurance companies kept their legacy code and demanded proficiency in their third-party software, which could only be learned working for them. [/QUOTE]
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