I remember reading a story about a company looking to hire a C/C++ programmer and found someone with years of experience. And when they showed him the program, they hired him to change, he looked at it and said "What's this?"
Bill ________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of esst...@juno.com <esst...@juno.com> Sent: Friday, January 12, 2018 2:22 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: curious: Popularity & use of C on z/OS. >From my perspective, I can't say that C is picking up on the mainframe. >From My personal observation, I don't see C programmers doing maintenance. Every installation that had JAVA and/or C, the "programmer" always wanted to re-write the program, they were unable to read existing source code and make the required changes. Too Many times I have seen C programmers ask "What Does this program do ? . my observation only, No bias intended. ---------- Original Message ---------- From: John McKown <john.archie.mck...@gmail.com> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: curious: Popularity & use of C on z/OS. Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 07:56:08 -0600 This is being prompted by the recent thread about getting the name of the running job in C. These are just some random questions. First, is C becoming more popular on z/OS? What for? I.e. batch programs, UNIX commands, CICS transactions, Db2 applications, ... ? Given that C, in other *IX systems, is a "system implementation" language, I find it interesting that IBM has not tried to make z/OS C have some of the same emphasis. Or maybe that is what Metal C is for. What I'm getting at is that there are no "system level" function interfaces, such as for ENQ/DEQ or "Name/Token" pairs. Would such interfaces be of any general use? -- I have a theory that it's impossible to prove anything, but I can't prove it. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
