On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 19:34:25 +0200, Michel Castelein wrote: >> >> >JCL consists of about 120 words last I checked (not counting those goofy >conditional statements IBM created recently for those who couldn't >comprehend COND codes), average batch job uses about 20 or 25. ... >> > >> It's pretty hard to tell whether you're a Luddite or merely a masochist. > >I'm both a Luddite and a masochist, and proud of it. > As upper management perceives, even through media such as airline magazines, that (some; I'm confident not all) z/OS systems programmers exhibit public delight in unwillingness to assimilate new technology and in performing their jobs in a needlessly difficult, even painful manner, it bodes ill for the future of the platform.
My apologies if I overlooked whimsical intent, as I hope. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
