On Sat, 29 Apr 2023 13:51:00 +1000, Andrew Rowley wrote:
>
>Fair point... although I would contend that a Java program without
>comments is easier to understand than DFSORT control statements!
>
Yes.  It appears as if the specifier of DFSORT control statement syntax
was traumatized in utero by CMS or POSIX test(1).

There's too much ....key,value,key,value,key,value,...
where either ...,key(value),key(value),key(value),...
or ...,key=value,key=value,key=value,...
would be preferable.

-- 
gil

----------------------------------------------------------------------
For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,
send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Reply via email to