In a recent note, Charles Mills said:

> Date:         Fri, 5 Jan 2007 16:04:22 -0800
> 
> If you work for an end-user company, then you have some influence on, for
> example, the ease-of-use of your systems. I often hear on this list a
> defense of obscurity: "why would you want to change how JCL works -- it was
> good enough in 1968, it's good enough now." That is not a productive
> attitude. Face it, the mainframe is in many ways user-hostile. We are the
> people who invented the cult of the unapproachable IT guru: "authorized
> personnel only." Changing those attitudes would be a good step.
> 
You appear to be advocating that readers of this list assimilate
that which they loathe.  If they were to do that, it would mean
the terrorists have won.

-- gil
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