Rising to the defense of RPG, what other language had its own ruler? Talk about ease of coding! Ah the nostalgia.....sigh.
Sent from Tony's iPhone. On Jul 3, 2013, at 9:50 PM, John McKown <[email protected]> wrote: > I've not run across many languages that I considered "ugly". RPG II was > one. EasyTrieve Plus is not "ugly", but I don't much like it. The newest > IBM COBOL is rather nice, albeit still wordy. The first COBOL that I > learned: ANSI COBOL back in the 1970s made me puke, after learning PL/I of > the same era. > > The main thing that I hate is a manager saying "use xyz, but refrain from > using the new omega facilities". The reason being that everybody in the > shop knows the basic xyz language, but is not familiar with the omega > features. So I am chained down to the least common denominator for "ease of > understanding" by those who simply won't learn new stuff. Case in point in > my current shop, at least in the past, was not using any z/OS UNIX > facilities because they were "just too esoteric and complicated". > > > On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 8:59 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> In >> <CAAJSdjg1jRs6DrNV7xzAftEoGcojyeGf=fvwkbdh_idvozp...@mail.gmail.com>, >> on 07/03/2013 >> at 07:10 AM, John McKown <[email protected]> said: >> >> http://www.itworld.com/it-management/363424/only-thing-programmers-have-fear-all-these-things >> >>> I say "yes" to most. #4 is being forced to learn or use some specific >>> technology >> >> What if you consider a language to be ugly but also consider it to be >> the best tool for the job? I don't care for Perl syntax, but between >> the expressive power of the language and the modules available in >> CPAN, I find myself using it regardless. That's not a boss telling me >> that I have to - it's my own decision. >> >> -- >> Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT >> ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> >> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. >> (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > -- > This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. If this had been an > actual emergency, do you really think we'd stick around to tell you? > > Maranatha! <>< > John McKown > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
