Articles - Presentations:

• "Why Assembler is a 21st Century Language" - Authored by Kristine Harper, a NEON Enterprise Software product developer and zNextGen Project Manager for SHARE, this presentation discusses the usefulness and relevance of Assembler as a modern programming language. The presentation highlights the ease of debugging Assembler with z/XDC.
  
  
• "Considerate Programming: Reducing the Maintenance Costs of Commercial Quality Code" - Authored by David Cole, this presentation offers examples of the rules that have served Dave well in his forty year programming career. Dave refers to these rules as a programmer’s aesthetic. He believes that programmers who consistently apply such an aesthetic build more reliable and maintainable products.
  
  
• "Using USINGs" - This presentation, also authored by David Cole, discusses the creation of symbol sets and how USING statements connect symbol sets both to code and to data areas. The presentation offers the reader an in depth understanding of the many ways to use USINGs and insights into how and why USINGs are so critically important to Assembler programming.