Wow! Never heard of the language but I'm envious.
On 7/4/2013 5:59 AM, Wayne Bickerdike wrote:
Mark IV had a ruler too...
On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Anthony Babonas <[email protected]> wrote:
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
----------------------------------------------------------------------
For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,
send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
