Somebody said the following, 'Jeepers John, I gotta disagree with you on that one. How is '#' as a prompt any better than 'READY'? As far as messages, there is no way IMHO that a non-numbered set of UNIX or LINUX messages is superior to ANY numbered IBM messages for ease of understanding. Google lets you look up those unnumbered messages on the Internet and try to find some meaning, but without Google non-numbered messages are an abomination. My biggest pet peeve is the explanation that certain unnumbered messages are 'self explanatory'. What a crock...
IBM was very smart to assign messages alphanumeric prefixes and to collect them in reference manuals for users to read and understand.' I have to agree with him on that. The person, I think it was Mckown, says he likes Bash better, bu I can see NO benefits to Unix. You can string things together via pipes into a virtually incomprehensible mishmash of |'s \'s \\'s, >'s, etc. And you say this is wonderful? Does this person know ANYTHING about ISPF? We can programatically accomplish the same thing in a superior, self-documenting way which does NOT require specail, arcane knowledge. How is THAT inferior? I am not going to bash(no pun intended) anyone for being skilled enough to do that. More power to you, but simplicity is vastly more important in the long run than complexified and obscured command line prompts.
