>I think he was picking on BAL because in some contexts that refers to an old Assembler and is therefore not accurate for our context.<
Right... someone else said the same thing. So I'm a HLASM programmer. But for the record, whatever language it is, I learned it originally in 1980 from the Struble text (it might have been the first edition). Was that BAL? I doubt it was HLASM... David ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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