Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!BOGECNVE.BITNET!XMAS From: XMAS@BOGECNVE.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.lang.asm370 Subject: Re: Bogon interrupts... Message-ID: <9105291338.AA07230@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 29 May 91 13:39:19 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: IBM 370 Assembly Programming Discussion List Distribution: inet Organization: The Internet Lines: 25 >>... This proves that programmers as a whole are >>getting soft - the 360/91 was considered programmable in assembler, but >>today's programmers think that it's "too hard" and let an optimizing >>compiler do it..... > >Yes, I definitely see this as a trend. It should be. >... >But as a greater and greater portion of the population becomes programmers, >we start to lower the common denominator. Not all of us are Indy/Grand Prix/etc race car drivers, but most of us can operate a motor vehicle with some small proficiency. Not all of us are surgeons, but most people can remove a splinter and apply a band-aid(tm). ... Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark A. Stevens BITNET: XMAS@BOGECNVE Educational Computing Network Internet: xmas@ve.bogecn.edu Governors State University Phone: 708-534-0200 University Park, IL 60466 FAX: 708-534-0054