zMan, But there are manglers , aka managers who say Assembler ode is hard to maintain because of te skillset required.
Scott ford www.identityforge.com Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand. - Chinese Proverb On Feb 16, 2013, at 4:35 PM, Scott Ford <[email protected]> wrote: > Ba zing ...ok zMan, I agree I write Assembler, C ...on the MF ..I agree > ..multi-tasking is a bit rough > > Scott ford > www.identityforge.com > > Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll > understand. - Chinese Proverb > > > On Feb 16, 2013, at 4:14 PM, zMan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Scott Ford <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Thomas, >>> >>> I don't follow, writing in several languages , what awkward to do in >>> cobol, supervisory stuff yes for sure. >> >> Yoda? Is that you? :-) >> >> If this was supposed to be asking "What is it that's awkward to do in >> COBOL?", try calculating the offset between two data elements. For one. I >> know that every time I go to write something in it, I run up against "You >> just can't do that in this language" and my response is "Seriously? Wow." >> (OK, or I write an assembler function to enable what I need...) >> >> Admittedly, COBOL isn't as bad as I'd been led to believe by three decades >> of avoiding it -- but as the saying goes, "You can write your program in >> <pick a language>, or you can write a story about your program in COBOL". >> -- >> zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
