Alan, a thousand pardons. I was thinking of vendor manuals in general. IBM manuals are frankly IMHO among the best in the industry, and I have always thought the POO/PoOp/whatever was among the best of the IBM manuals.
Related digression: why is that *hardware* manuals (any vendor) always seem to be so precise, whereas many (most?) *software* manuals are so soft and squishy? Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2012 6:26 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Usefullness (or not) of STOC/LOC instructions? On Wed, 28 Nov 2012 16:21:05 -0800, Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote: >LOL. Ain't it the truth! > >Possibly even "too much bother to explain to the tech writers" or "I >don't have a precise enough logical grasp of it to translate its >operation into English sentences." The Architects write the POO. They write what they mean and they mean what they write. They have to, since it is the specification to which the Engineers must conform. They do, on occasion, provide some guidance to the Engineers that can help reduce construction costs. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
