And this is new how? :-)
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 10:16 AM, John Gilmore <[email protected]> wrote: > This thread has exhausted itself. We are rehashing trivia. I do not > need to be reminded of the capacity of a halfword, signed or unsigned; > and Kevin can defend his views himself if he wants to bother to do so. > > For what it may be worth, I judge that the new facility is a happy > compromise of very different notions of what is important. > > I have perverse moments in which I should be delighted to see "code > that has worked for decades" broken. Any such code should have been > reconsidered and in most cases rewritten long before now. > Precipitate change needs to be avoided, but this platform should not > be hostage to decisions taken in the remote past. > > John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- 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
