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[Seransen]

Greetings, everyone!

I hereby confirm I'm not a spambot or other form of clever automated pseudo-person.

I've been a professional programmer for something like 25 years, primarily on MVS mainframes. I'm considered an expert in z/OS HL Assembly language, but primarily write in REXX, using HLASM programs for functions and subroutines where I need a quick boost or have to do something REXX can't.

I also do some programming on Windows XP these days, primarily with VBScript and various flavors of VBA, and in Mac OS 10.6 using AppleScript and Regina REXX.

My son is taking x86 Assembly in college (he's majoring in programming). I've looked over his course materials and his textbook, and find the language intriguing.

Although I have some experience on other platforms and in other languages, at x86 Assembly I'm an absolute rank newbie. I look forward to learning from the community here, and meeting other folks interested in the language.

Cheers!

[hutch--]

Hi Seransen,

Welcome on board. We have had our share of mainframe folks in the past and while x86 assembler is a strange animal, folks with the basic knowledge of architecture usually get the swing of it reasonably well and often write some very good code once they are up and going. It will also be useful to your son if your experience can be put to use to help him out. Get yourself the current Intel x86 manuals and whatever format Microsoft help you are familiar with as both are necessary to get the swing of current x86 code. There is an emerging 64 bit body of code but its not yet well developed where 32 bit is very well known and well supported.