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<CAAJSdjhH6D+uOVEtmxx4rOL=w2csasxtn8saahkj68g5wpg...@mail.gmail.com>,
on 11/11/2013
   at 12:16 PM, John McKown <john.archie.mck...@gmail.com> said:

>I always got the feeling that orignal OS/360 JCL programmers 
>either stole the parsing code from the then-existant assembler, 
>or vice versa.

If so, that feeling is in error.

>JCL and old style assembler just seem to be so syntactically similar

They really aren't.

>Keying in lower case on a 026 - is that even possible?

It is possible; you don't want to go there.
 
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