(UPDATE: I think i've got this one answered, thank you everyone!)
People of mastodon!
Super weird question, but ...
... is anyone out there conversant in Assembly for a 1960s-era IBM 7090, or machines of that lineage?
I'm working on an article that includes some Assembly of that vintage ...
... and want to make sure I'm describing what it does correctly
if this describes you or someone you know ...
... hit me up, I'd love to tap your expertise!
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I'm sure you'll find someone just as sure as I hated learning Assembler as a student.
The language hung on as way to save memory space but I preferred COBOL.
it is pretty challenging to write, based on the very little of it I've had exposure to!
COBOL, I once spent an afternoon messing around with the emulator package that IBM put together a couple of years ago -- it was fun!
COBOL was my livelihood before web based systems. Years of keeping legacy systems going, like billing systems. Unsexy but reliable.
The only problem was having to move around the country to get the jobs.
I'd consider COBOL again if it was remote work.
I gather banks and governments still need a lot of COBOL help!
not sure how much of it is offered remote, though
Banks and government would be new for me but the work never changes even if the business is different.
I've still got my COBOL and DB2 books in the house, IDMS and flat files before that.
Clive Thompson
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