APL sounds painful unless your into pain. I learned Rexx after Assembler, Cobol and PL/1. I always thought PL/1 was clever with the “dos” then I learned rexx which is a lot like C ..
Regards, Scott On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 6:53 PM Schuffenhauer, Mark <[email protected]> wrote: > APL was miserable on the QWERTY card punch. > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf > Of Gibney, Dave > Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2019 5:45 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Unreadable code (Was: Concurrent Server Task Dispatch issue > multitasking issue) > > Careful, *@$$! Probably does something in APL :) > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > > On Behalf Of Pew, Curtis G > > Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2019 1:01 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: Unreadable code (Was: Concurrent Server Task Dispatch > > issue multitasking issue) > > > > On Jan 8, 2019, at 2:48 PM, Paul Gilmartin <0000000433f07816-dmarc- > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > >> Pew, Curtis G wrote on 1/8/19 3:05 PM: > > >>> On Jan 8, 2019, at 2:03 PM, Tony Thigpen wrote: > > >>>> > > >>>> "C is the first write-once, read-never language." > > >>> > > >>> Not even close; APL was around nearly a decade before C. > > >>> > > > Assembler? > > > > > > > While it’s not easy or much fun, I’ve read and even understood a lot > > of assembler code. > > > > Now, I’ll admit that my only real exposure to APL was a two or three > > week module in my undergraduate physics lab in 1980 or ’81, but I do > > vividly remember working for hours on a program and then coming back > > the next day, looking at the two or three lines I’d written, and > > wondering what the *@$$! they were supposed to do. > > > > > > -- > > Pew, Curtis G > > [email protected] > > ITS Systems/Core/Administrative Services > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > > email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email > to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > DISCLAIMER: This email and any attachments may contain confidential > information that is intended solely for use by the intended recipient(s). > If you are not the intended recipient, you are strictly prohibited from > disclosing, copying, distributing or using any of the information contained > in the communication. If you received this email in error, please contact > the sender by reply email and immediately delete the communication. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Scott Ford IDMWORKS z/OS Development ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
