i thought I just read a self-appointed list cop say that he would rather we stop talking about cool stuff just so he doesn't have to ... errr, umm. hit delete? no, not that. Skip it? No, he would have to read it first. Some people like Fortunato know what is best for me. I don't know. It isn't my list. But IMHO, flooding the list owner with complaints is more honest than flooding the list. but I digress.
Anyway, best way to stop an unwanted thread is to ignore it. best way to let someone else know you don't like what he/she is discussing it, is to just ignore it. so having said that. Granted a punch card in no matter what language would most likely be 80 bytes long. but what about the very first language, assembler? Mnemonics would most likely hide a multitude of grammatical elements, say, for example, the one that comes to mind most often for me (other than SQL), which is COBOL. Her language needs lots of verbs and prepositions. And Ms. Hopper's language was really just one step ahead of assembler. C? Nothing there that requires any identity with any language. JCL? Nope. It only has 6 verbs (according to Montresor Brooks, Jr). (1) I just cannot help feeling that somewhere along the way languages similar as English in some similar as English way makes some things easier in computer stuff. Cool people were talking about this and for me it was fun. Now after being chastised I might as well go down with some pride and fortune. Ciao. Lindy (1) http://lilliana.eu/downloads/jcltalk.txt -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2012 3:26 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Parsing In <50afbbd1.2020...@t-online.de>, on 11/23/2012 at 07:09 PM, Bernd Oppolzer <bernd.oppol...@t-online.de> said: >For a native German speaker, it is always remarkable that in the >English language there are often two words for the same thing. It's worse than that; sometimes there are more than two words for the same thing, sometimes there are distinctinct English words derived from the same root. >One from the "indo-german" or "anglo-saxon" language origin, and the >other from latin. Don't forget French[1] and Greek. [1] Yes, I know it's a Romance language, but it's not the same as Latin -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
