<div>i started this thread on assemblers I think because I asked a question. Just wanted everyone to know it has been resolved. I'm working on my last assignment, than I will be done with BAL! </div>
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<div>Unrelated, but whoever was talking about Django Piston, GOOD JOB, Piston is great. Ive been experimenting with it on the local dev server and you can roll out pretty good web apps quick. I like it!</div>
<div>-jon<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Conrad Weisert <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cweisert@sbcglobal.net">cweisert@sbcglobal.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On Nov 13, 2009, at 13:00, Phil Robare wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">This last was running their core accounting system that was written in BAL (370<br>Assembler) in the 70s. And I was told it ran faster today than it did on any of the previous machines.<br>
</blockquote><br>Strictly speaking "BAL" denotes Basic Assembly Language, the subset of full 360/370 assembly language that didn't use macros or other "advanced" features. To write a production application in BAL in the 1970s would have been extremely unenlightened.<br>
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