[ElTianti]

I wrote assembly for a VAX, it was like writing C.

[LIConFem]

I coded in C under VMS, mostly real-time financial systems (trading, gov't bonds, et cetera). Loved SMG and, particularly, the VMS DLM which had the blocking-AST feature. Makes UNIX's signals/semaphores seem useless by comparison. AST's in general were incredibly useful.

[Pessimist]

"I wrote assembly for a VAX, it was like writing C."

You say that like its a bad thing...

[Myrddin]

I wrote assembly for a VAX, it was like writing C.

That's not an accident. C was intended to a portable assembly language and was created by people who started life writing assembler on PDP8/11 computers. I used an early cut of UNIX written in assembler for the COSMOS support system. It was called "COSNIX". A real time variant of that COSNIX was created for automatic call distributors. It was called MERT. Dennis Ritchie's invention of C turned out to be very useful across a broad range of assemblers and CPU architectures.