Being forced to use inappropriate technology is very disagreeable, but it is hard to judge the appropriateness of a technology until one has mastered at least some part of it.
My own guess is that few of us know too much, I spent part of yesterday with a sysprog who has been doing what he does for 17 years, but at the end of the day it was clear that he had never mastered the facilities of the linkage editor and now the binder. It is, I am sure, arguable that the binder is disagreeable; but without mastery of what it does one is crippled in a z/OS environment. Every discipline, programming or art history, requires its practitioners to master some disagreeable or merely boring techniques and to do a certain amount of scut work. Even eminent surgeons must sometimes lance boils. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
