On Fri, 16 Aug 2024 12:33:41 -0400, David Spiegel wrote: >Hi Lennie, >"... (in the late 1970s) I wrote some program for TSO using 3270 >protocols. This was in the days before ISPF ..." >I Used ISPF's predecessor in the late '70s. (It was called SPF -- >Structured Programming Facility). > In that era, "Structured Programming" was a buzzphrase. I wondered about its relevance to SPF. In contrast, I have used language sensitive editors in which I could point to and identifier and they would show me its defining occurrence, even in a copybook header. Even lowly Vim, when I cruise the cursor over a bracket, highlights the matching bracket (usually). ISPF can't do that.
ISPF dropped the "Structured" out of embarrassment. SCLM is due some credit. I haven't used it. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
