So you interpreted "If you are going to..." as "Because you are"; Charles clearly meant it as "If one were to..."
English can be ambiguous, but comity will get you a lot further than knee-jerk defensiveness. This applies in real life, too, and might explain some folks' employment difficulties. Just sayin'. On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 1:44 PM Seymour J Metz <sme...@gmu.edu> wrote: > > Why do you have to be so hostile? > > Why do you have to be such a hypocrite? I'm not hostile in general. But > when you rant about imaginary hostility and gratuitously insult me, I see > no reason to be concerned with your delicate feelings in subsequent > messages. > > > I did not see any mention of OS compatibility. That is precisely why I > mentioned it. > > You wrote "If you are going to include OS compatibility as well as > hardware compatibility"; that certainly seems to be a false claim that I > mentioned it. > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf > of Charles Mills [charl...@mcn.org] > Sent: Thursday, July 2, 2020 1:28 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: z/OS use of "legacy" programming languages > > Why do you have to be so hostile? I did not see any mention of OS > compatibility. That is precisely why I mentioned it. I raised additional > issues beyond what you raised. WTF indeed. > > Charles > > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Seymour J Metz > Sent: Thursday, July 2, 2020 9:48 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: z/OS use of "legacy" programming languages > > WTF? Where do you see "OS compatibility"? The issues that I raised were all > architecture and instruction set. > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf > of > Charles Mills [charl...@mcn.org] > Sent: Thursday, July 2, 2020 12:39 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: z/OS use of "legacy" programming languages > > If you are going to include OS compatibility as well as hardware > compatibility then there are issues such as control blocks that have been > moved above line. > > Charles > > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Seymour J Metz > Sent: Thursday, July 2, 2020 9:07 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: z/OS use of "legacy" programming languages > > > The only thing which might not work would > > be something which was CPU speed dependent. > > That's not the only thing. A program that relies on getting certain program > interrupts might fail. Then there's the ASCII bit, although I would be very > surprised if anybody actually used it. There are optional instructions that > IBM carried over. There's probably more that I haven't thought of. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
