Oh yeah. S/360 assembly almost looks like a high level language sometimes. In MVS, functions of the OS and standard libraries (or its equivalent) were implemented as elaborate macros, with their own invocation syntax, whereas nowadays you'd expect a function that you'd call (dynamically linked or not), with parameters passed in registers.
At least in the 90s, there were actually macro assemblers that supported OOP programming in assembly. Borland Turbo Assembler 5.0 comes to mind, if was kind of fun.
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Oh yeah. S/360 assembly almost looks like a high level language sometimes. In MVS, functions of the OS and standard libraries (or its equivalent) were implemented as elaborate macros, with their own invocation syntax, whereas nowadays you'd expect a function that you'd call (dynamically linked or not), with parameters passed in registers.
At least in the 90s, there were actually macro assemblers that supported OOP programming in assembly. Borland Turbo Assembler 5.0 comes to mind, if was kind of fun.