Probably best to ignore certain individuals who rather seem to like to be insulting, but of course not personally. On the whole they don't do much for most discussions, other than beating their own drum.
I think Steve is talking about different people/groups basically doing their own thing and ending up with lots of probably undocumented little macros, and I agree that that is worse than useless for the wider world. OTOH one can develop suites of macros to implement higher level functions, frameworks etc. which if documented, maintained and supported by training and management guidelines can be very useful for larger developments. Where would we be without IBM system macros, after all? One can extend them with further really useful functionality and save a lot of repetitive development effort. -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] Im Auftrag von Sharuff Morsa3 Gesendet: Mittwoch, 23. Juli 2014 11:36 An: ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Betreff: Re: Macros -- was: EDit mask for floating minus (negative) I work regularly with Steve. It is, and has been, a please and a delight. I've always respected his views, many of which I agree with. Sharuff smo...@uk.ibm.com > > Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 16:35:36 -0400 > From: Tony Thigpen <t...@vse2pdf.com> > Subject: Re: Macros -- was: EDit mask for floating minus (negative) > > There is just so much wrong with several things you mentioned. > But, based on your last statement, you don't care anyway, so I, for one, > will not bother. > > I just pity the poor people you work with. > > Tony Thigpen > > -----Original Message ----- > From: Steve Hobson > Sent: 07/22/2014 04:25 PM Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598. Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU
