Talk:Assembly language/GA1

GA Review
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Reviewer: Wasted Time R (talk · contribs) 13:20, 17 September 2020 (UTC)

This looks to have been a drive-by nomination made by an erratic editor who has since been indef-blocked for incompetence. The article has large swaths of unsourced material, not just explanatory material but historical and analytical as well. In some cases there are whole sections without any citations. So this has to be a fail.

But the article is not bad at all. Content-wise, my main suggestion for improvement is that the use of assembly language for IBM mainframes needs to be given more attention. It is mentioned here and there, but back in the heyday of the IBM 360/370, when it was the dominant computing platform in the industry, assembly language was everywhere, not just for high-performance system software components but for run-of-the-mill business applications as well. Learning 360/370 Assembly was part of the standard education that commercial programmers had to get and there were a lot of textbooks and commercial courses available for it. For instance, in the textbook Kevin McQuillen, System/360–370 Assembler Language (OS) (Mike Murach & Associates, 1975), the example programs that the text develops concerns a batch inventory control and reorder application, and later parts of a batch payroll application are constructed. This whole aspect of historical assembly language use is counter-intuitive to today's reader and part of the value that this article can bring is to describe it. Wasted Time R (talk) 13:20, 17 September 2020 (UTC)

Other Platforms
I would suggest adding more information on the use of assembly language on platforms from other vendors, not just on other IBM platforms. I know for a fact that CDC and RCA used assemblers as implementation languages on their operating systems, and I'm confident that many others did as well. Similarly, there was a lot of customer use of assembly languages on non-IBM platforms. --Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul (talk) 14:21, 10 September 2021 (UTC)