Yeah, ad hominem and ludicrous stereotypes. "It seems like a waste of time to get mainframers to think that there is anything that will ever be as great as JCL." says everything necessary. I devoutly hope that he gets to work with people who fit that caricature.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Steve Horein <steve.hor...@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2021 8:12 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: even an old mainframer can do it I thought that looked familiar. Saw the article on reddit: https://secure-web.cisco.com/15BE15YJecnbCxTJQ4a82JPAUe4hyI_mpJeIZK8lmq6JYr6CVp-ovEdroR6zxVz1gDQswnE--N-30x0PNWgsTfAieD_xtXSDHYoZQ4eJ73AZo0I8UxOSaj6POpiD---G1OR9aqEsrJKZ9NBaItC1XEg91iS74qk96WgvfZF0PUnz43n1kSrn5JCJnxJfKKBDmqURRZ_VA8gIJui23gcZLfgLNAIm2BK7J0f704IEFmlSmT5pISZ1dDy0PGWMPRYHTzjV6sakyd8RAqTbEyvtzSIO1k8CSGClsJK0_IsvZ5MCPaMjbgXI0GBCBd6js5ua3Mc0bZzYK-_FLyXkKpvFt8luHJHvWEe3EdAtCpDNINSxBXurIQZXyAGjTHd_D1J15bgalFg8nif9Is0svpylOJnO_VjLUXig_UGp4OqQO4UpQzbb5MKdfCGeYL6pnoqqOBd-DsjfxaTsbw8y1fbdJlA/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2Fr%2Fmainframe%2Fcomments%2Fp6aj9m%2Fconverting_jcl_to_python%2F On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 10:59 PM kekronbekron < 000002dee3fcae33-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Objectively, this has got to be madness. > Just look at the JCL that's being shoved into a horrid, horrid Python > program. > ~200 lines to replace 18 lines of JCL. > > Oh.. and that's leaving aside the condescending tone about 'the old > mainframer'. > Whether a person wants to learn something or not (therefore choosing their > path) is up to them. > They don't need to be harassed/shamed about it. > Just because there were some people on mainframe forums consistently > harassing everyone with "check with your site's system programmer / RTFM / > etc.", it doesn't mean the woke folk need to return the favour by being > passive aggressive or insulting senior sysprogs for not wearing neon shorts > or whatever. > > If this is being paraded as simplification, now the mainframe is truly > doomed. > > > https://secure-web.cisco.com/1ZyDlfAZ27E8D7TKzkOJJm1IXiWlVbgk4ruNhsc-ds0k8tL4Tdj3DNGk97xzuFNSh-KgmNm4j-_I8kMHplSlgMSD8jZmyFsV0Blbb8pBLoycjhivCwE_7qG4u7T9wvTvUtGXKoxhQsxmoAbDb4OTZ8hwXnu7kP5BV6PSuY6jxkMwwKvadibVNjcTtug0wmEURBfqAobgbv0cAK30PeqL7t2aKSIScWFFGxNPm6QZzHGn3O_9TxezEcTx_9MZP6uv2yR3MrRJb2KJaqZe7cmWliRo_TRne0cWAwZPMUw6A84ZBAxhaSTR6Gx8NRDzSdkVy9JO63jbf8EPdsu1jPokfk_n6a8nXZnFfWaTFNiGzKZHh1CBT4g6Nq8M5XPbpt6Ltvw7qczOpNeNPnsdm8Iy9ryb35M75w2KSRNKmLFXxv-weFIq5xQU-6WPoVtAcKiXZEB9cHTOyhxQzveFRg2jmuA/https%3A%2F%2Fmedium.com%2Ftheropod%2Fthe-journey-from-jcl-to-python-so-easy-even-an-old-mainframer-can-do-it-f088cc49366a > > - KB > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
