In <listserv%201012201120430565.0...@bama.ua.edu>, on 12/20/2010
   at 11:20 AM, Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> said:

>Whose moronic design fails to treat a command delimiter surrounded by
>quotes as plain text? 

Someone who understands the law of unintended consequences.

>That's what quotes are supposed to be for.

No. What would you expect ISPF to do with an input of

   C /'/"/;C /C"/C'/
 
-- 
     Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
     ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> 
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)

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