[ConservativeInPA]

Yeah, I’d say we are a tad bit old. I grew up on FORTRAN and 360/370 assembler. I did two terrible years of work in COBOL. I hated it. I never wanted to touch RPG, so I avoided it like the plague and never had to do it. My hard core professional experience later on was in C and then C++, although I coded in all sorts of languages here and there as I found opportunities. Then as I was no longer able to code as fast as in my younger days I moved into design and architecture work. I still dabble, but these days it is mostly PHP.

[GingisK]

I still do C/C++ on microcontrollers, as well as design those circuits. I retired years ago, but still have three clients that keep me busy making stuff. I also taught Embedded Computing in high school for three years. That was fun, but a lot harder than I thought it would be. From time to time my robotics team students still come to piddle in my workshop.

Assembler is still needed from time to time, particularly for interrupt handlers. I even managed to get a couple of my students turned into C/C++ bigots with occasional lapses into assembler. They tell me they kick butt at Georgia Tech because of that grounding.