On Fri, 2 Jul 2010 15:47:43 -0500, Ward, Mike S wrote: >It was never intended to be a programming language. In the earlier version of >MVS, VS1, SVS, MFT, MVT you didn't have any of those capabilities. > My calendar says it's 2010. Many things evolve into what they were never intended to be. OS/360 was never intended to be UNIX, yet MVS 5.2.2 was among the earliest OSes to qualify for UNIX branding.
Concerning other plies: Of course HTML is not a programming language. It is called "HyperText Markup Language". Given that the topic of this thread is "Unix systems and Serialization mechanism" and the OP asked for a comparison of UNIX facilities to those of z/OS, TSO ALLOCATE is no further off-topic than JCL. What about PostScript? PostScript fonts are called "programs" in order to circumvent a quirk in U.S. patent law which would otherwise prevent patenting/copyrighting fonts. But I consider PostScript definitely a programming language. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
