Talking of "Hello, world!", I remember working in ISPF/TSO, when a
line-mode message filled the screen. A text rendering of a ghost and "Nasty
Wetmonster* phantom strikes again!". Everyone in the office got it. I
looked up the TPUT macro and found the USERIDL= parameter.

Some clown was scanning rhe control blocks, looking for any jobs with a
User ID and sending a ghostly TPUT to every one. I don't think he ever got
sacked :-)

Rupert
*name changed a bjt, to protect the guilty.



On Sat, 11 Apr 2020, 16:23 Robert Prins, <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 2020-04-11 06:25, David Crayford wrote:
> > On 2020-04-11 8:42 AM, Dale R. Smith wrote:
> >> After "Hello World!" maybe the next step would be "99 Bottles of
> Beer"!:-)>
> >>
> >> http://99-bottles-of-beer.net/
> >>
> >> After a few real beers, the virtual beers would be a lot harder!  Ha Ha
> >
> >
> > haha, some creative soul has even done JCL using utilities
> > http://99-bottles-of-beer.net/language-jcl-6.html
>
> 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"!
>
> Robert
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