I find move source destination to be more natural than move destination source.
"When the only tool you have is a pipe, everything looks like a filter." -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Paul Gilmartin [[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2020 12:55 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [External] Re: Build and submit proc On Wed, 23 Dec 2020 09:36:31 -0800, Tom Brennan wrote: >Thanks Rex, exactly what I was going to say. > >On 12/23/2020 7:40 AM, Pommier, Rex wrote: >> >> Yeah there's a problem with it - a human problem. It's easy when in a hurry >> to miss the fact they're reversed ... >> "reversed"? Is there a canonical order for DD statements? Perhaps alphabetical, by DDNAME? I'm comfortable with languages which generally put the TO before the FROM, as" X = A + B; The exception, predictably, is COBOL: ADD A TO B GIVING X I feel the designers of UNIX commands made the wrong choice. generally putting the FROM before the TO: cp file ... directory; TOPS-10 did it the other way, setting me up for culture shock. It's easier to parse and interpret on-the-fly with the target first. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
