Talk:IBM Basic assembly language and successors: Difference between revisions

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Granted, the "Hello World" program becomes amazingly simple even in Assembly Language if no (new) savearea is needed. If you want to underline the complexity of this language, peraps use an OPEN, CLOSE, PUT and DCB macro instruction instead. It is actually bad practice to make undue WTO calls, because the operator of a mainframe typically is a person in the computer center, not the user. [[User:Rbakels|Rbakels]] ([[User talk:Rbakels|talk]]) 05:04, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

==Instruction Format==

The article read "In most instructions, the target for an instruction appears first, then the source on the right (as with "a = 6" in C or Algol programming)." This is just not true.