Related, I think the VM community's wonderful Melinda Varian observed
that the best software is developed by people (often individuals) who
actually want to use it. On the VM side, that includes Mike Cowlishaw's
REXX and John Hartmann's CMS Pipelines. I'm sure z/OS has many
equivalent stellar tools/products/offerings.
And maybe related to the incestuous compiler compiling itself, from the
1980's OCO wars, the SHARE button, "We want to be able to fix it in the
language in which it broke".
David Cole <dbc...@colesoft.com> noted:
In contrast, a compiler coded in its own language tends to be much
> better, user friendly in features, than a compiler coded in any other
language.
Interesting observation.
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