Originally Posted by royale
As for assembler, well, you can have that. The whole point of 3G languages is so you don't have to think like a computer.
Hmmmmm.
Well actually there is a lot of code out there written in assembler. The reason I know, and write, in assembler is because my profession is maintaining a mainframe operating system that is written in assembler. That is Z/OS and it runs the largest of the IBM Z/Series mainframes. It used to be called MVS or OS/VS2.
There are things that simply can't be done in anything other than assembler.
I agree that "normal" people don't really need to write in lower level languages, but for those of us that know them, we actually enjoy it. Sick huh?
Phil.