>From the OED: Arcane: adjective: Understood by few; mysterious or secret
And IBM Assembler ~isn't~ arcane? :rolleyes: -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Walker Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2014 9:08 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: ASSEMBLER-LIST Digest - 24 Mar 2014 to 25 Mar 2014 (#2014-55) Well, I went a bit over the top in terms of my response. And thanks for polite responses. Having dealt with the emotions, I'll try to be more logical. Regular expressions may be able to do stuff, and again I emphasize my distant acquaintanceship with it, but I dislike arcane languages and regular expressions is nothing but arcane. WIdely accepted, well, yes, but only in the same way that Cobol once was, and with the same rationale. "Everyone uses it". So? That doesn't promote anything well. It just says, 'lot's of us use it, so we aren't going to change our minds.'. It also means the argument I give is moot. I just greatly dislike complicated things when they don't need to be. And rexx really does do things in a vastly simpler way than regular expressions. I don't mean unix rexx, I mean mainframe rexx. I created self-reprogramming interpreted rexx programs which followed logic chains that I gave them how to reprogram themselves. And parsing played a big part i! n it. And I coul never conceivably have done that with regular expressions. So, enjoy complexity at the expense of ease of use. -------------------------------------------- On Tue, 3/25/14, Automatic digest processor <[email protected]> wrote: Subject: ASSEMBLER-LIST Digest - 24 Mar 2014 to 25 Mar 2014 (#2014-55) To: "Recipients of ASSEMBLER-LIST digests" <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, March 25, 2014, 11:05 PM ASSEMBLER-LIST Digest - 24 Mar 2014 to 25 Mar 2014 (#2014-55) LISTSERV at the University of Georgia ASSEMBLER-LIST Digest - 24 Mar 2014 to 25 Mar 2014 (#2014-55) Table of contents: ASSEMBLER-LIST Digest - 22 Mar 2014 to 24 Mar 2014 (#2014-54) Another Article On Lagging Mainframe Skills (3) Automatische Antwort: Another Article On Lagging Mainframe Skills Wrapping it up (2) ASSEMBLER-LIST Digest - 22 Mar 2014 to 24 Mar 2014 (#2014-54) Re: ASSEMBLER-LIST Digest - 22 Mar 2014 to 24 Mar 2014 (#2014-54) (03/25) From: John Walker <[email protected]> Another Article On Lagging Mainframe Skills Re: Another Article On Lagging Mainframe Skills (03/25) From: "Farley, Peter x23353" <[email protected]> Re: Another Article On Lagging Mainframe Skills (03/25) From: Ze'ev Atlas <[email protected]> Re: Another Article On Lagging Mainframe Skills (03/24) From: Michael McCawley <[email protected]> Automatische Antwort: Another Article On Lagging Mainframe Skills Automatische Antwort: Another Article On Lagging Mainframe Skills (03/25) From: Lenz Boris <[email protected]> Wrapping it up Wrapping it up (03/25) From: Steve Comstock <[email protected]> Re: Wrapping it up (03/25) From: John Ehrman <[email protected]> Browse the ASSEMBLER-LIST online archives.
