On Tue, 7 Jun 2022 17:58:52 -0400, Phil Smith III wrote: > >Meanwhile, in TSO there was CLIST, and people said “A CLIST”. Nobody (I >think?) said “A CLIST program”. Then Rexx came to TSO and people there often >say “A Rexx”. Which is perfectly reasonable, and parallel to the three >predecessor usages. > Does it make sense if one expands the contractions? "A Command LISt" is comfortable. "A Restructured EXtended eXecutive" is not.
(Case sensitivity? "When in Rome ..." But I once wrote a Rexx wrapper for the CMS Pipelines DIGEST MD5 stage that started with PARSE SOURCEE then if called as "MD5" output upper case hex; if called as "md5" output lower case hex.) Political correctness? Many people are comfortable saying "a Catholic", "a Buddhist", etc., but shy from "a Jew" and say "a Jewish person". I've asked Jewish friends about this. The modal response is a long pause then, "I suppose 'a Jew' is OK." -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
