In <1317603333203761.wa.paulgboulderaim....@bama.ua.edu>, on
07/25/2011
at 09:40 AM, Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> said:
>Clear enough if I read it carefully, but I dislike the user interface
>design.
I agree, but for a different reason from yours.
>Had I been making the decision,
>instead of SELECT PGM(MYPROG) I would have used LINK(MYPROG), and
>instead of SELECT CMD(MYCMD) I would have used ATTACH(MYCMD).
That would obscure the real difference between them.
>And "a unique argument list format" has always baffled me. What
>ever was wrong with R1 pointing to a vector of addresses of argument
>strings?
Noting; in fact, both forms generate such a list of addresses. The
difference is in what those addresses point to.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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