On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 21:53:15 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>> in fact, IKJPARS weakens EXECIO. In CMS Rexx, I can simply say:
>> EXECIO 1 DISKW file-spec (string It's a string!
>No.
>
OK. I forgot to quote it. Anything else?
On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 14:16:50 -0800, Charles Mills wrote:
>Pardon my ignorance. What does IKJPARS have to do with EXECIO DISKW?
>
I suspect it's a cultural influence. TSO designers expected programmers
to be so repulsed by the necessarily unbalanced "(" in:
"EXECIO 1 DISKW" <file-spec> "(STRING" <expression>
... that they required an assignment and a stem, or a push and pull.
Coming from a background of TECO, I was aghast at the verbosity of
SPF Edit; it felt like composing a program in real time whereas using
an editor should become a motor skill. Example: if I want to delete
several lines containing "foo bar" in vi:
/foo bar<ENTER>
ddnddndd ...
or:
:g/foo bar/d<ENTER>
in ISPF Edit (I think):
<HOME>
x all<ENTER>
f 'foo bar'<ENTER>
del all<ENTER>
reset<ENTER>
Is there a better way? Do I need to hone my skills?
--gil
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