Not all change is progress. They don't call vi TEFH for no reason. As for regexen, don't teach your grandmother to suck eggs (no, I have no idea where the phrase originated.)
Do I really need 4 Linux boxes? Aren't 3 enough? Using vi would be a lurch backward. And do you mean the same thing by macro that I mean by macro? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Jack J. Woehr [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 30, 2020 3:34 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: strange python announcement On 3/30/20 12:59 PM, Seymour J Metz wrote: > The OMVS 3270 shell always struck me as having been written by somebody who > didn't understand either the 3270 or VTAM. > > As to vi, can I easily script it with REXX, or at least Perl? If you're going to use modern open source on USS: * Learn to use SSH with keys for login vs. password. * Learn to set your terminal. * Learn the basics of bash and shells in general. * Install and use vim, the modern replacement for vi (yes it takes its own kind of scripting) * Learn regex programs like o grep o sed * and. learn. Python. * Get yourself a Linux box (z/Linux is just fine) as a reference platform. PS I'm not catcalling from a distance, I was doing all this on z/OS in 2016. Time to catch up with IBM i. Yes, it's a lurch, but it's a lurch forward for your practice and community. It's organic, it's healthy, and it's not going away. -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of http://secure-web.cisco.com/148QrMIY4YeTwf4caN-ahsqcsc97vPj5-lXbC2TRnpBAe1NzhUoswhgopn-0EWSYkU5FAEBRruamG_BPHw0KQWwE-5JkoRyW4DJKkSdY9iJBeEhdbzSr1DmDwap7ftdGTMMc4c708Px2TFw3WWtMwJyAxD7GOXxw5jNVyUTfuaZCKIW4eaWfH-RAjwtgauft0adfVGXcK5TXKLYRwSveaNN9kKLGI0CIfxtssXj609qySVQrR4ZkRw9D7gIJAY2MRyFvgo-ykOxcpCwd_DJyn6K-TjT53wGriJiLziRz_tyOICMMcCO56I60CGZxBJ7vu1z2fpopVPMkhS5O1mrnrWPmy5srURFcNPr8dxOMbLp3sBGgQWBbPiHBnSnlpmXR7gGM4tdeVk2UCmv6LmFx7ncfKU1okj4R3DUldDDzQrGNH8o8EbgFEjyRdkeDq1Kon/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.well.com%2F%7Ejax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe http://secure-web.cisco.com/1NF71tiwELwqb3J0HZAVMmqPM9t09HzJA8g6szM6AGdFqnNY7GWS-E5Zyt6Uy-wj586kMQikqCa0Fw8e6dlQgymSmAFoqqr6ubLATZaZo16GYFrK3fmZplGBKVDuCz33_vQ79b96oiwx3aA3ojS_NEl6GutLnBbPxjQHLRZ-zrusQQrllS-RLIrB0xBXOqw2TBqRpTL9etiubvu0ETIunEEivArE8_XtisIcH-yoCWYRKsatxxwyca4VYF_b6uMWW5cV4wPu7tqmRBDPUdZ94bdM6EUXVEZZbdapMYRNcdQKD-cTY-NWTPdrlvCZneY4_h0Kazl4RFZUmQSze8MpfI8FqSaEV6lRtZBBc8_4T8ISQidSYvDIhBaDJKqR46DPUjfgcSHtdXD33grFySw1vaNmYLXc_9PBS7gKA5HA7exJBIWnCVBB8XN0AZQo0Xho_/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. - Carl Sagan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
