Lindy, Reading the doc to me at least shows interest, considering read manuals is like an lost art form.. And people wonder why businesses outsource.......
Scott ford www.identityforge.com Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand. - Chinese Proverb On Nov 26, 2012, at 2:00 PM, Lindy Mayfield <lindy.mayfi...@sas.com> wrote: > Tweedledee and Tweedledum _Agreed_ to have a fight. > > Someday soon some language will be the Lingua Chinoise and COBOL will start > looking really "funny." > > I just had the extreme pleasure of helping a colleague from Beijing doing > some installation in z/OS, and she had never seen or touched a mainframe > before. Ever. And just on her own she could work with everything from USS > to JCL with zERO training in ISPF or JCL or anything. No training. Just > looking through docs. > > I explained to her what SYSPROC meant and she got it right away... > > I still cannot believe it, but on the other hand, I it is just a machine. > > I'd love to hear Steve chime in on this, but I never thought I'd see the day > that someone went from knowing a TSO command line's difference from UNIX, or > batch, to ISPF so easily, just like it was, hmmm, what is the word I'm > looking for.... > > A computer? > > ...a way a lone a last a loved a long the... > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of John Gilmore > Sent: Monday, November 26, 2012 6:24 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Etymology 101; was Parsing > > Bill Fairchild wrote: > > <begin extract> > As languages evolve, several aspects of any given word can change: the > spelling, the pronunciation, consonantal voicing or unvoicing, vowel > shifting, and even the meaning. > <end extract> > > and of these the last is perhaps the most important. > > Geoffrey Chaucer described himself as 'lewd', by which he meant not that he > had a preternatural interest in things sexual but that he was not a clergyman. > > Shakespeare repeatedly used the word "sad" to mean not sorrowful but [nearly] > worthless, and there has been a colloquial recrudescence of this sense in > recent years. > > When I began in this business "storage" mean only auxiliary|backing storage. > Main storage was "memory", a usage that is certainly not obsolete and is > preserved in acronyms like DRAM. > > If you want to know what a word or phrase means|meant with any precision you > must associate a time and a place|dialect with your query. > > John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to > lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
