On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:06:41 -0500, John Eells <[email protected]> wrote:
>... From the very name of HZSAIEOF, and the penchant of good >programmers to pick meaningful names when possible, ... >(Oh, no! Now I've done it. Next time they name a program like this, >they'll probably use a random character generator. Or maybe they'll >name it something misleading instead. If that isn't what happened >this time, that is. And we're not telling.) >... " ... the penchant of good programmers to pick meaningful names when possible ..." unless cleverness happens to strike, of course. I have to go back 25 years or so, but the program Host Command Facility (HCF) had the module prefix CHF. Its main module was, as I recall, CHFNPIE or maybe CHFONPIE, or some thing very similar. Chiffon pie. Just the sort of descriptive name you'd intuitively pick for something sending commands to a remote processor. :-) Pat O'Keefe ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
