JCL //name IF / THEN / ELSE / ENDIF is from the mid 1990s. On Fri, Dec 6, 2024 at 9:26 AM Radoslaw Skorupka <[email protected]> wrote: > > Some colleagues of mine are sometimes angry for me, because when I > "modernize" some system things I tell them how old the "new feature" is. > Sometimes it is 20 or 30 years. :-) > And I have found that I use many "recently" clauses in my JCL course > guide, which is over 20 years old (with updates covering z/OS 3.1). > > -- > Radoslaw Skorupka > Lodz, Poland > > > > > W dniu 06.12.2024 o 16:19, Bob Bridges pisze: > > I'm chuckling over "recently (a few decades)". I, too, am at the age where > > I say "recently" and mean something like that. My grandchildren won't > > understand that for quite a while yet. > > > > I suppose it will go on forever. When I'm 10 000 years old, I'll think > > "recently" is any time in the previous millennium. > > > > --- > > Bob Bridges,[email protected], cell 336 382-7313 > > > > /* Men are qualified for civil liberty, in exact proportion to their > > disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites....Society cannot > > exist unless a controling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, > > and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is > > ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate > > minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters. -Edmund Burke, > > 1791 */ > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List<[email protected]> On Behalf Of > > billogden > > Sent: Friday, December 6, 2024 09:17 > > > > Being an old, old, old assembly programmer, I still write the actual code in > > upper case. However, more recently (a few decades perhaps) I started using > > mixed case for comments. Is it "needed"? Perhaps not, but I think it makes > > the comments more readable -- and that can be important. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
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