On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 4:31 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht < [email protected]> wrote:
> Peter Hunkeler wrote: > > >Not sure whether I shall laugh or cry. DFSort is a great tool, no doubt; > it's control statements (I intentionally don't called it "language") are a > nightmare, no doubt. Hopefully noone will ever consider the above as > something suitable for production. Overkill; not maintainable. > > Perhaps, this is why ICETOOL is in place. That is a great tool. > > You can always write a 3rd SORT system with a build in programming > language. Hopefully that system is sort of free... > Oh, yeah. Perhaps based on Guile (big grin) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Guile. It's a LISP variant. > > Something like this, sort of, but ... > > PROGRAM Sort-it-Yourself > > Declaration fiels left to programmer as an exercise... > > OPEN IN > OPEN OUT > > For records 1 - last do > sort by surname > output name, surname, phone number > end for > > SHOW records 'Records sorted by surname.' > > Close everything; > > SHOW ' You're sorted out!' > CA-Easytrieve Plus might fit your bill. Of course, being as how it's from CA, it is not free at all. But it is faster and easier to write than COBOL. > > Groete / Greetings > Elardus Engelbrecht > > -- The unfacts, did we have them, are too imprecisely few to warrant our certitude. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
