Many years ago I worked with a very smart assembler programmer. He developed a suite of programs that built Assembler programs using Michael Jackon Structured programming constructs.
It was called CODEL and basically you wrote the structure constructs, SEQUENCE, ITERATION and SELECT as if it were a program specification. If it passed all parsing rules, it would build the Assembler code (From macros) and the real neat thing was that it printed a program structure diagram that reflected the program. It was very easy to conduct a design review and generally the resulting code was correct. On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 11:26 AM Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: > PDF is a format for storing documents that have already been rendered, not > a format for writing documents. The competition to PDF is Programs like > BookManager Read. > > Script, GML Starter Set, BookMaster and BookManager Build all provide > markup languages; their competition includes DocBook, LaTeX and MarkDown. > > BTW, it is possible to create links to specific pages between PDF > documents on the WWW. > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf > of Paul Gilmartin [[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2021 6:33 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Coding for the future > > On Wed, 16 Jun 2021 15:09:30 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: > > >.. I miss the DCF based software. > > > PDFs are adequate. Their worst shortcoming is that cross-document > links open the referenced document but not at the relevant section. > > Does DCF do better? > > -- gil > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Wayne V. Bickerdike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
