Comment by kotaKat

> There’s no need to discard the language of the mainframe—it’s part of the platform’s strength. But we do need to be deliberate about how we teach it. Too often, explanations stop at “what” something is, without digging into “why” it matters.

That's even assuming you got an explanation in the first place that wasn't an "ask your systems programmer" or some other high level administrative gatekeeping cabal of the greybeard operator that is too scared of a new kid on the block wanting to learn how to IPL metal from scratch. That's scared me mostly away from working with most of this. I don't want to learn the code per se -- I want to work with the metal.