"You can write Fortran in any language."
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Frank Swarbrick <frank.swarbr...@outlook.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 8, 2019 6:19 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Unreadable code (Was: Concurrent Server Task Dispatch issue multitasking issue) Any programming language can be "write only" in the hands of the wrong person. :-( ________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Seymour J Metz <sme...@gmu.edu> Sent: Tuesday, January 8, 2019 1:41 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Unreadable code (Was: Concurrent Server Task Dispatch issue multitasking issue) REXX write only? I beg to differ. Yes, it has a few quirks, but I find it eminently readable. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Tony Thigpen <t...@vse2pdf.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 8, 2019 3:19 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Unreadable code (Was: Concurrent Server Task Dispatch issue multitasking issue) FYI, I also put REXX into that category if someone tries to be 'fancy'. And I use REXX a lot. I remember a programmer, back in '81, that was told that he could no longer use RPG, but must use COBOL. He was upset so started using Spanish variable names. This was not California, but was North Alabama, where few spoke it. (Yes, management did catch him after a month or so.) Tony Thigpen Pew, Curtis G wrote on 1/8/19 3:05 PM: > On Jan 8, 2019, at 2:03 PM, Tony Thigpen <t...@vse2pdf.com> wrote: >> >> "C is the first write-once, read-never language." >> > > Not even close; APL was around nearly a decade before C. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
