W dniu 11.11.2024 o 01:16, Phil Smith III pisze:
Radoslaw Skorupka wrote, in part:
Short answer: NO WAY.
However you can use some *programming* language for that, including REXX.
Simple explanation:
JCL is *not* a programming language.
JCL "piece of code" is called job, not program.
First, I'm not disagreeing with you here. But this does make me wonder one more time, as
I have in the past: "Just what IS required for something to be a 'programming
language'"?
Does it have to have loops? Variables? A compiler (I'd say "no, or various scripting
languages might not qualify", and I don't think anyone would buy that)? Does HTML
qualify? It has the L-word but that doesn't prove anything. Etc. I know people who think
JCL does count. Can we prove them right or wrong by some objective definition?
Thoughts?
Well, I cannot provide accurate, precise definition of programming
language, especially in English, which is not my native language... Yet
another "language" in discussion ;-)
My answers:
1. You can write a program using this language.
2. It is called a programming language.
False answer:
It is compiled.
REXX is programming language, BASIC is programming language, both can be
interpreted. From the other hand DFSMS ACS routines are somehow
compiled. Is ACS programming language?
Of course first answer may rise another question: what is a program?
And the second one may rise: Who said that?
However such discussion may lead to interesting (or not) results. Is
cooking recipe a program? You can find loops, variables, conditions,
etc. It is written in Polish. Or English. :-)
--
Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
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