Sometimes people write in what their employer knows. I once had to process SMF data in COBOL because the president of the company didn't like PL/I.
Given a free hand, I use the best tool for the job. I like PL/I and REXX a lot more than Perl, but I use Perl when I need, e.g., packages from CPAN. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of scott Ford [idfli...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, May 9, 2020 3:59 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Developers say Google's Go is 'most sought after' programming language of 2020 Jack, Personally, I think *sometimes people write in what they know. If they know C it’s C or if they know JavaScript , it’s JavaScript. I know companies aren’t paying for education, which I feel ultimately hurts them in a lot of ways. I learned C and experimented on Z/OS and liked its abilities in threading etc. I know Charles enjoys C ++ , I think that’s great , haven’t per se learned it yet. Scott On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 3:51 PM Paul Gilmartin < 0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Sat, 9 May 2020 11:44:42 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: > > >+1 on the name. > > > >I read an article on branding once that said if consumers can mess up > your name, they will, so be aware of that when you pick a name. The East > Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) is universally known in the SF Bay > Area as "East Bay Mud." > > > >Goo, with its nod to "++", Google and "object oriented" would have been a > great name, had they had a sense of humor. > > > >G would be good, with its homage to C and its predecessor B. > > > But they're terrible search keys unless your command syntax > supports a mixture of whole-word and substring keys. I know > of none that do. > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Scott Ford IDMWORKS z/OS Development ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
