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> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of john gilmore
>
> Dean Kent writes:
>
> [ snip ]
>
> With programmers, on the other hand, we too often proceed
> very differently.
> Statement-level procedural languages like COBOL are
> frequently subsetted, the use of notionally "difficult"
> language features being interdicted as "too complex" in many
> shops. It would be much better to interdict professional
> programming to anyone who cannot master all of the features
> of any of these SLPLs.
I once worked in an Assembler shop where the manager forbade the use of
BXH/BXLE because he couldn't grasp how they worked. I did get to see
some "interesting" dumps caused by BCT(R) loops gone awry, though. :-)
-jc-
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