I wrote some code about 13 years ago. It allowed long parameters, and
even more importantly, it allowed card files to be generated with
symbolic parameter replacement for typical utilities in "card" files.
And effectively it allows card files to be stored in Proclibs with
parameters or symbolics being replaced. Very useful. More about this in
a few days.
However, some IBM guy attacked me over some code I had used from MVS to
allow programs that needed to be authorised if necessary. Code from the
Initiator. IBM tested code! He was VERY rude, and so I just
disconnected from this group, effectively, despite the fact that I have
been a System Programmer since the 1960's.
And I developed an entire replacement language for JCL that was used for
decades by some of the largest companies in the world. IBM was going to
sell it but some people effectively stole it.
Since then I have made a study of narcissism and similar., I have
discovered that we humans are an interesting lot! Apparently, if you
put enough pressure or fear into people (such as raise interest rates to
impossible levels) the frontal thinking lobe shuts down our brain, and
we literally cannot think logically, and just go into fight, flight or
freeze. Interesting.
Some people don't believe in Climate Change. But if you look deeper,
behind the Murdoch/Fox news, there really are fires and floods all over
the earth. Just a few years ago in Australia, we had massive fires in
the Bega region. Some of my best friends lost everything in the fires.
They just died a few months later. They had lost everything.
We should all be helping each other to make a better world. Even a
better computing world.
Let's do it!
Clem
Brian Westerman wrote:
Personal attacks are really not warranted. I think we can discuss our systems
programming beliefs without attacking someone.
Brian
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