On 2017-07-05, at 13:53, Gibney, Dave wrote:
>>
>>> A JCL member can be available again tomorrow or sometime in the next
>>> decade when the task need repeating.
>>>
>> ​True, but so can a shell script. ...
>
> Either or both are more keystrokes than I care to do frequently on the fly.
> Typos happen.
> Write once, cut'n'paste forever.
>
I suspect programmers are more alike than you allow for. I can
hardly imagine a proficient UNIX programmer who won't use a
script for a recurrent task.
OTOH, I know a proficient Assembler programmer whom I used to
watch as he:
READY
...
ALLOCATE DD(SYSUT1) DSN(*)
[ up to about a dozen lines of source code ]
/*
CALL 'SYS1.LINKLIB(IFOX00)'
Showoff.
--gil
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