In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 03/14/2006
at 11:41 AM, Paul Gilmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>IBM's lexical conventions, traceable to the limitations of the 029
>keypunch and 407 card reader
Not even close.
>No professor, having a limited number of
>lectures to deliver, will choose to waste any of them describing the
>continuation conventions for JCL, or HLASM, or even TSO.
If the teacher is tasked with teaching JCL, HLASM or TSO and fails to
describe continuation conventions then he is not doing his job.
>It's more productive to teach UNIX or Windows instead.
That sort of decision is up to the department, not the individual
professor. It is the duty of the professor to teach the material that
the University promised the students in the course catalog.
--
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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