Re: Aging Sysprogs = Aging Farmers

2013-11-06 Thread Michael G Phillips
And I find cp terribly confusing - to a neophyte does it stand for copy, or compare, or compress (as in disk reorganization). It might make more sense if I could assign an alias of COPY to it. well...actually you can do that, quite easily: alias COPY=cp I cut my teeth on DOS rel 26 many

Re: COBOL problem (not really), but sort of.

2013-09-28 Thread Michael G Phillips
Thanks. I'll point him to it. He has already, somewhat jokingly, said fix it! But COBOL doesn't have the DWIW (Do What I Want) verb. I'm still waiting for the DWIT (Do What I'm Thinking) and RAE (Remove All Errors) instructions... ;-)

Re: What programmer's fear (not IBM specific)

2013-07-06 Thread Michael G Phillips
I guess I got to table a little late... but my worst fear is the Ready, Shot, Aim demands from project managers that don't seem to have a clue about investigating all the issues of a project! As for tools, my bag includes BAL, COBOL, masm, Perl, bash and ksh. Maybe not it's full as others but