Uh oh, new GMail "Reply" format will irritate the bottom-posters -- now it's non-trivial to not top-post. Let the flamewars resume.
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 10:56 AM, zMan <[email protected]> wrote: > 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" > -- 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
