Since you asked me, I respond: I DON'T CARE.
Personally I would say "DFSORT command syntax". Not even script.
However it doesn't matter. I wouldn't be going to correct anyone saying
"I wrote a program in DFSORT".
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Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
W dniu 13.11.2024 o 09:17, Jack Zukt pisze:
Hi
Would you call DFSORT a programing language? It has conditional logic,
variables, it can compute, change data...
Regards
Jack
On Mon, Nov 11, 2024, 00:16 Phil Smith III <li...@akphs.com> wrote:
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?
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