Paul Gilmartin has characterized my mercifully infrequent contributions to this
forum and my only one to this thread as harangues.
One immediately accessible web definition of <<Harangue>> is:
An impassioned, disputatious public speech; A tirade or rant, whether spoken or
written; To give a forceful and lengthy lecture or criticism to someone.
His characterization of my manner is thus, I think, exaggerated. In particular
I prize brevity.
Worse perhaps, it also reflects a failure, this time, to mug up the appropriate
etymologies; and it is thus a disservice to his persona here.
He did, however, get the matter, my substantive views, right. I think that the
HLASM and its macro language are the appropriate vehicles for implementing
products, things to be used by others; and I think that PL/I, never C, is the
appropriate vehicle for teaching and illustrating algorithms and for
implementing throwaway, investigational routines.
His own contributions here do not always convince me, but even when they do not
they do almost always elicit my sympathies, as do even implausible defenses of
handicapped offstring and halbstarke anarchism.
John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA
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