Those of us in the Languages Project meet early Friday morning to plan for the next SHARE. We have a little bit of uncertainty here because of the sudden retirement of our Project Manager, but I think the new guy will work out okay.
Perhaps as a result of IBM's announcement of a new assembler, we seem to be experiencing a resurgence of interest in assembler related topics. There is some probability that we'll have up to six sessions at the next SHARE meeting having to do with assembler. Besides the customary requirements session we have:
I think I might have agreed to query Borland on whether or not they'd care to talk about their own object extensions to PC assembler, since the next SHARE is up in their neck of the woods (San Francisco).
A rumor is floating around that IBM Research has an experimental debugger that processes the SYSADATA file out of the new assembler. I need to ask Dave Weintraub for a contact within IBM Research I guess.
Deborah Norberg will probably repeat her pitch on the new Binder. It should probably be expanded into multiple sessions -- there is a lot of material.
Nanch Wheeler, my official IBM contact at SHARE, had a great idea for a button we could share between the APL and assembler groups: