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> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of john gilmore
> 
> Dean Kent writes:
> 
> [ snip ]
> 
> With programmers, on the other hand, we too often proceed 
> very differently.  
> Statement-level procedural languages like COBOL are 
> frequently subsetted, the use of notionally "difficult" 
> language features being interdicted as "too complex" in many 
> shops.  It would be much better to interdict professional 
> programming to anyone who cannot master all of the features 
> of any of these SLPLs.

I once worked in an Assembler shop where the manager forbade the use of
BXH/BXLE because he couldn't grasp how they worked.  I did get to see
some "interesting" dumps caused by BCT(R) loops gone awry, though.  :-)

    -jc-

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