>I don't want to provide exact definition of programming language, but JCL >hardly fulfills such one.
I'll take the word of my programming professors from the mid-1970's. According to them, it is a programming language. Scripting, iteration, and such things as function/subroutine calling are not required. Variable substitution, and the ability to alter control flow (if/then/else, and skipping steps - COND -as weak as it is) is enough to justify it as a programming language. But, a I already said, it's semantics. - I'm a SuperHero with neither powers, nor motivation! SHAZAM! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
