On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 15:23:47 +0000, Robert Prins 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"! > Indeed. I'd toss the JCL and call it IEBDG. (Waiting for the DFSORT example to surface.)
Are utilities considered "languages"? One criterion is conditionals plus either iteration or recursion. JCL might have (limited) recursion via nested PROC calls (example?) but no condition to terminate the recursion. I haven't the stamina to check: What's the shortest of the 1500 examples, with/without correct grammatical plurals? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
