Rick Fochtman wrote:
That increased instruction set allows for vastly increased capability,
in spite of the perceived complexity. Simple applications can still be
coded using simple instructions, but more complex requirements can be
met more simply and efficiently by using some of those "added
instructions" that seem to lead to complexity.
Complexity is far too often used as an excuse for incompetence or
laziness; not always or even most of the time, but still far too often.
You don't let a carpenter into your house if he doesn't know how to use
his tools, do you????
I think it's worth noting that subsystems and compilers (and of
course interpreters) can hide the underlying complexity. The
human-facing interface need not be more complex for the
underlying architecture to have better or more function.
--
John Eells
z/OS Technical Marketing
IBM Poughkeepsie
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