Re: Re: Fullscreen application Specs

On 8/4/10, kerravon86 <kerravon86-/[email protected]> wrote:
> --- In [email protected], "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.

Speak for yourself, as you obviously love C.

I much prefer the 'native" language  of 370 assembler, and reading
through the source has been like being in a "toy store".

>
> 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.

Well who cares? ..

This is an *ancient* / historical operating system, we're playing with.

Most of the fun (for me) is figuring out how things work, learning JCL
/ Assembler, and the other crpytic / different / old stuff.

If we're going to write it in C, then why not Visual Basic ?...
interpreted (well actuall Rexx is close to that :) .. and I *am* also
interested in Rexx.

/rant on

If you love C, so much, instead of continually bugging Rocky, to bend
to *your* preferred preferred language (you've mentioned C at least a
half dozen times in this thread), while he writes an AWESOME Editor /
"mini CICS", and is planning to GIVE it away,  go ahead and convert it
to C.

/<rant off