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Chris Mason ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Gilmartin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: <IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU> Sent: Thursday, 12 October, 2006 1:50 AM Subject: Re: What's a "programming language" (was: Google ... ) > ... > Re-read carefully Brooks's description of the 701 hardware constraint. Does this mean Fred Brooks's presentation ca be read online? > ... > In assembler, it can't be before 16, for no good reason; JCL has no > such constraint. In either assembler or JCL, if a quoted character > string is continued, it must resume at exactly column 16. Maybe I have a false - caused by fright - memory about this. JCL was my first introduction to the world of IBM - back in the summer of 1967. In order to submit a program I was obliged to code up some gobbledygook - ***exactly*** as specified on a copy of a filled-in coding sheet - and wrap it around my program source cards. The job submission was by petrol-driven RJE and - with luck, assuming I hadn't made a single mistake in the gobbledygook - and the program of course but there the logic had logic <g> - I got what I was hoping for the following morning. I seem to remember in those days JCL needed to see column 72 "punched" where appropriate and continuations starting in column 16 - not just a quoted character string - but memories can play tricks ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
