I did cards; that was bad enough. And, yes, I would prefer that everyone had full support for Unicode.
Collating sequences? That's just the tip of the iceberg for locales. How bout the different time standards? UT1? UT2/ UTC? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of John McKown <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2019 12:51 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: z/OS V2R5 Will be the Last Release to Include JES3 On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 11:41 AM Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not the one who says "I hate EBCDIC"; I certainly like EBCDIC better > than ASCII. > My apologies. I was confused. That is "gil". I prefer Unicode, personally. And I really don't want to get into a discussion about "collating sequences". Blech. How about we go back to Baudot? {grin} > > As for Perl, my primary use of it is on OS/2, nd it did things that would > have been awkward with REXX. OTOH, I wish that the regex syntax were moe > like SNOBOL. > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > -- I just burned 2000 calories! That's the last time I'll nap with brownies in the oven. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
