Not at all. There are mainframe ports of good things.
You just will not find mainframe ports of bad things. (Yes, I consider PCRE a "bad" thing.) Let's be honest. PCRE is a very strange item. It's *VERY* complex and so very few programmers are really competent with it. Many programmers pull examples off the web and play with them until the code works, never understanding why or how. When you ask them to explain it, they can't. And that generates non-maintainable code segments.If there is even a minor problem with the PCRE coding, it takes an expert to figure it out. As I mentioned in my previous email, PCRE code just does not rise to the level of maintainability needed on a mainframe. It's great for a single programmer shop but does not scale well to a multi-programmer shop. (Which means most mainframe shops.) Of course, this is just my opinion. And why I would not allow PCRE code in any shop I ever manage. Tony Thigpen -----Original Message ----- From: [email protected] Sent: 03/24/2014 07:46 AM
Which means that libraries that do some functionality cannot be ported because 'they were not invented here'. If this is correct, no wonder that the classic mainframe is dying. I was trying to believe that this was not the case. ZA Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android
