SemiOT: Mourning for Classic Computing

From: Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com>
Date: Wed Aug 15 08:50:17 2001

> > I've always thought that one of the more simple assembly languages would
> > be a great 'first language' for someone wanting to learn how to program.
> > Who's with me?
>
> I think S/360-S/370 assembler would work quite well. It starts out
> exceedingly simple, then moves to variable length opcodes, variable word
> length, four-level indirection, etc. Doesn't require it to do useful
> stuff though. But I am a bit biased towards mainframes.

Yeah, that was my first... in fact, at quitting time, I sometimes
think "time to BALR *,HOME" or something like that...

-dq
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