Steve, I also rather enjoyed HLASM and PL/1. I am self-taught in several programming languages, so learned C kinda on the fly, but really liked it. I liked the structured macros in HLASM also. Makes life easier.
Scott On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 2:02 PM Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > I actually love HLASM, PL/I, and older versions of C++. C++ was a leader > in OO programming, but imho, it's gotten so stupefyingly complicated that > it's may not be humanly possible to write decent programs with it. Go > sounds like a pretty good reset, but at this point, I only know what I've > read about it. > > It's name however, is horrible. Goo, Goog, or even G would have obviated > much ambiguity. As it is, they may be stuck with Golang being the common > name. > > sas > > On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 1:44 PM Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote: > > > +1 > > > > Everyone here who likes the general idea of a C++ type of language (HLASM > > and PL/I zealots need not apply!) but dislikes some or many of the > > specifics of C++ should check out Go. (The name of the language, as I > > understand it, is Go. Unfortunately the word Go is pretty heavily > > overloaded, which tends to make people call the language by the > unambiguous > > name Golang. Golang.org is the Web site.) It is a compiled language, > unlike > > Python. > > > > Charles > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Scott Ford IDMWORKS z/OS Development ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
