I can see both sides of this. On the one hand I accept that once I'm used to sticking my key into the door of the car, it takes time and thought (when I get one of those new-fangled fobs) to turn it over and find the right button and push it instead. And why take time and thought when it saves no time and effort; pushing the button, turning the key, they're about the same. Nowadays I've gotten as far as doing them both about 50-50.
I'm a fan of PC hotkeys; to take my fingers off the keyboard, put my hand on the mouse, find the cursor, move it to the right place, then move my hand back to the keyboard after pushing the button, all this takes (it seems to me) a ~lot~ more time than keeping my hands where they are and just hitting <Shift-End> or <PF3> or whatever. But if someone wants to keep on doing it the way he's used to, I expostulate only mildly. But (and now we get to the other hand) sometimes learning a whole new skill really is worth the effort. I've used the Dvorak layout instead of QWERTY for ten or fifteen years now; it took me a week or two even to get started, and it was a few months before I was fully reflexive (so to speak), but I'm not sorry. LaTeX took me a week, but it's SO much better than Word. ooRexx I'm still not really expert in, though I've been using TSO-REXX for decades. I guess the conclusion is that I'm often willing to make the effort, but I don't choose to give others a hard time if they're not. And besides, if others keep doing it the old way, that makes me special, right? :) Seriously, it increases my market value. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* He can say "horse" in nine languages, but he bought a cow to ride on. -Poor Richard */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of David Crayford Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2023 16:59 I find this interesting as one of my ex-colleagues was the same. He used SPF/PC and the Tachyon assembler. When SPF/PC became obsolete he tried to move to Slickedit which has an ISPF emulation mode. It was painful watching him code as line commands are really inefficient but his muscle memory was such that he just couldn’t change. Flip side of the coin is that one of my esteemed colleagues switched from ISPF to Slickedit and it was a success. He just bit the bullet and learned a new editor. I’ve done this several times to great effect. He even presented the experience to our team. Another example is the architect of the product I’m working on. Long term mainframe guy, ex-IBM DE and general great guy who never wants to stop learning. He taught himself how to use VS Code, markdown and Git so he could contribute to our open source documentation [1]. You are never too old to learn new things. And you should, because they are generally much better. [1] https://z-open-data.github.io/instana-topics/ > --- On 23 Aug 2023, at 10:45 pm, Seymour J Metz <sme...@gmu.edu> wrote: > It's a start, but I would love the opportunity to fork out $ for a full > clone. Not that I have any objections to using free software when it suits my > needs, but I won't ignore a useful program just because it's not open source. > Take Tritus SPF (TSPF), but not while I'm still breathing; it was money well > spent. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
