I could write a million line program that does nothing. Not what my references were, so a straw man argument.
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Sunday, August 22, 2021, 6:09 AM, Jeremy Nicoll <jn.ls.mfrm...@letterboxes.org> wrote: On Sun, 22 Aug 2021, at 02:51, Bill Johnson wrote: > “Programming” in REXX, CLIST, and similar types of languages is hardly > programming. Real programming is hundreds or thousands of lines of > COBOL, with IMS, DB2, or CICS calls. So... if someone writes a compiler or assembler, or a whole OS - none of which contain IMS, DB2, or CICS calls - it's not "real programming"? The length of a program is no indication of its complexity. A good case in point is that in APL a useful program can be written in one line. It's near guaranteed that it won't be comprehensible (APL is commonly regarded as a "write once, read (ie understand later) never" language. A COBOL program that makes calls out to IMS, DB2, CICS etc is quite a lot like a REXX exec that makes calls out to external services. The meat of the task is not being done by either COBOL or REXX which in both cases are the glue that holds the other stuff together. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
