Kathleen Booth, the inventor of assembly language, has died
I cut my Assembly teeth on S/360. In those days IBM source code was widely available and provided an excellent practice example for learning Assembler and the finer points of various instructions.<p>We should not forget that macro processing vastly expanded the power of Assembly language.<p>There is an analogy with DCF, Document Composition Language. The first MarkUp Language was GML which was a set of DCF macros.<p>GML evolved into BookMaster which underlayed IBM becoming the world's second most prolific publisher.<p>I wrote XPSProf which was a DCF ML used by Xerox Canada for writing manuals for its IBM compatible software offerings.