Ed Jaffe wrote:
On 7/11/2018 4:04 PM, Pew, Curtis G wrote:
I don’t think it’s true that JCL is the worst programming language
(with all due respect to Fred Brooks) because it isn’t really a
programming language. Should it have been a programming language?
Almost certainly, as shown by Unix scripting languages. But it isn’t...
With all due respect to whomever deserves it, ANY instructions telling
the computer what to do constitute programming...
This opens up the "competition for the race to the bottom" to machine
language, which is clearly the "winner" here! Even 1BFF07FE is harder
to read and code than its 2-instruction assembler counterpart.
(OK, so I could not resist. Back into my hole now.)
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John Eells
IBM Poughkeepsie
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