what does he mean by "... a schedule time operation..."?  what does that mean?

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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of 
Paul Gilmartin
Sent: 3. tammikuuta 2010 23:51
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Subject: Re: Why is JCL so bad was Re: Basic question on passing JCL set symbol 
to proc


>Whereas what you really want is a schedule time operation in whatever 
>language you're working in. 
>
Here, I strongly disagree.  This is the C-shell blunder.  You want 
a langage suited to the problem.  C-shell attempts to do scripting
with a C-like flavor.  JCL attempts to do scheduling with an
assembler-like flavor.  Both are misguided in the choice of objective.

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