On 8/24/2021 5:29 AM, Seymour J Metz wrote:
Yeah, ad hominem and ludicrous stereotypes. "It seems like a waste of time to get mainframers to think that there is anything that will ever be as great as JCL." says everything necessary. I devoutly hope that he gets to work with people who fit that caricature.
Frank is a great supporter of the mainframe -- especially z/OS. Always has been, always will be.
I suspect his poor choice of words on Reddit (he left out a word and should have said "SOME mainframers") was prompted by an understandable frustration with certain intransigent "Luddites" who refuse to accept reality and actively rail against open source, DevOps, agile development, automated testing, modern languages, hybrid cloud, or any other technology adoption by the IBM Z community intended to keep the mainframe relevant and growing instead of withering away...
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