RE: Re: Fullscreen application Specs

Well I have to agree with you in part at least.
Assembler Programmers - a "Dying breed" - Yes
"C" programmers = Dime a Dozen - Yes  (90 percent are worth about as much)
Excluding present company and the other 10%
 
On the other Hand - well debugged assembler programs (from exprience ) work
forever.
 
I enoyed writing "C" - The 3270 Emulator I use was written in part by me in
"C"
And I have a previous 3270 emulator that worked on a DOS platform that was
completey written by me in "C" 6.
The way I wrote "C" it was almost assembler in any case.
 
Modern Object Oriented CODE - Personally I don't like. But it great for all
the housepainters.
I 'd consider myself more of a PCASSO of programing than a housepainter.
 
Like I said beforel - it's a matter of having your own "tool box" of
routines etc. and enough memory left to remember what they do.
 
Of course I am not writing all this code from scratch - 
My toolbox has 40 years worth of routines and I am just cutting and pasting
to get them in the right order. (AND TRYING TO REMEMBER WHAT THEY ALL DO).
 
I'm pretty sure that most old timers work the same way -
If they don't have a tool box then they are not really pros.
Big difference between 1 year of experience twenty or thirty times and
thirty years of experience.
 
I have seen "C" programs that are more difficult to understand then well
written assembler. (not this program - writing too fast for it to be well
written -But eventually I will document it fully - It will be "art")
 
I remember the APL language.
 
We had a Joke 
" it takes an experienced APL programmer two weeks to understand a ONE line
APL program written by an experienced APL programmer."
 
Bit of truth to that. 
Experienced Assembler programmers understand asembler programs written by
Experienced Assembler programmers. 
 
But "C" is fine - I never wrote it on the MF so I am a little apprehensive.
When I have a BUG in assembler I know its my BUG
A bug in "C" - I'm not sure.
 
Roc
 



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--- In [email protected] <mailto:H390-VM%40yahoogroups.com> , "Rocky"
<rocsystems@...> wrote:
>
> There is a lot of app logic involved here

And you're still not tempted to write any of
this in C?

While you personally are clearly very productive
in assembler, anyone else trying to debug a
problem or make minor improvements is going to
give up before they even start.

I see all assembler code on a dangerous road to
an orphanage. It's a dying art (a fact hidden
by the unusual nature of participants in these
Herc groups), while C programmers are 
permanently available at a dime a dozen.

BFN. Paul.