I had some "getting going" issues -- many of them simply because I was new to C as well as to z/OS C (but not new to z/OS itself).
I have since found it extremely accessible, and found the productivity gain over assembler to be addicting. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Shane Ginnane Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 1:28 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment On Mon, 3 Sep 2012 17:11:24 -0400, Scott Ford wrote: >I am somewhat a beginner in C and java, written a Assembler and COBOL. >I am also talk about C in batch or as a STC. I had to do sine digging to >understand C threading and being able to Attach and assembler subtasks. One I >found it good. > There also is a huge difference in writing C in Windoze or >Linux or Unix and z/OS batch or STC. I can only concur. I found getting up to (a decidedly moderate) speed in z/OS C was a hard grind. I had no (external) doco, and the nuances of the big-iron implementation were a PITA. No background in LE probably didn't help. Didn't take long to lapse back into assembler, and wash my hands of it completely. Mind you, I'm probably going to have to take a closer look at the zLinux source-tree one day ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
