Not Your Father's Assembler Language: How to Make Your Assembler Applications Easier to Read and Maintain Using Structured Programming Macros

Existing Assembler Language applications are sometimes difficult to read, understand, and maintain because it looks like "spaghetti" code with tangled control flow. Programmers must struggle to update, enhance, and maintain such programs.

 

This presentation will show how you can slowly untangle the "spaghetti" strands to clarify the logic and business rules hidden in the "pasta". The Structured Programming Macros in the High Level Assembler Toolkit will let you simplify your programs in small incremental steps: there is no need to rewrite the complete program. The resulting programs are smaller, clearer, and far easier to understand, and the underlying business rules are clarified.

Tracks: Applications Programming, Architecture, Assembler Intermediate, Development Support, z/OS Systems Programming, z/VM Systems Programming and zNextGen