When I was very young, my sister and I made up a rule: If knowing one word of a language meant we could speak that language, how many languages could we speak? I knew "da" and "nyet" from Rocky and Bullwinkle, so I could speak Russian. "Sayonara", ok, that's Japanese. And so on.
In the same vein I once tried to count how many programming languages I've used at one time or another. For that purpose I cast the net pretty wide, and I'm pretty sure I included JCL. Hey, it's got "L" in the name, right? It even has an IF construct! Sure, that counts. --- Bob Bridges, [email protected], cell 336 382-7313 /* Politicians used to understand, without being told, that they didn't necessarily have whatever it takes to fill our lives with meaning. Their job was to fill potholes. -Joseph Sobran */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Robert Prins Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2020 11:24 Yes, and you can also do it using JCL and the PL/I / COBOL / Fortran / C / C++ / etc compiler. This example should most definitely not be called "language JCL"! --- On 2020-04-11 06:25, David Crayford wrote: > haha, some creative soul has even done JCL using utilities > http://99-bottles-of-beer.net/language-jcl-6.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
