17 Jun
2026
17 Jun
'26
10:55 a.m.
On Jun 17, 2026, at 11:55 AM, Mark Green via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
I recently reviewed a college program that had a COBOL course. It’s not quite dead in
academia.
Speaking of academia: clearly any "academic" who claims Assembler is dead is
unqualified for the job. It may be true that not very much application code is written in
assembler. But it should be obvious that competence in assembler is absolutely necessary
in order to build a compiler -- in particular, a compiler back-end.
paul