On 9/23/2013 3:15 PM, John Gilmore wrote:
I was not using the word 'ordinary' in a pejorative or even deprecatory way. I intended only to exclude very savvy people writing application code in assembly language and their like.
The problem is that "ordinary" is extremely subjective, depending not only on perception, but also environment. At a service bureau or ISV, the skill level may be higher than at a CoBOL shop.
I was at least half-aware of the DOS-compatibility quote-framed DSNAME value loophole, but if I remember correctly there were even more limitations on the use of these quote-framed DSNAME values than Paul Gilmartin has set out, including some contexts in which they could not be used at all.
True, but we were talking about removing data sets, so that how they got there may be interesting, but not relevant.
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