JCL COND is similar to an assembler branch, skip if true. On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 5:01 PM Pommier, Rex <rpomm...@sfgmembers.com> wrote: > > That's why I said "most basic". :-) And if you want to get pedantic, COND= > logic (as backwards as it started out, everybody remember "if it's true > you're through"?) was a REALLY primitive if/then construct. > > Rex > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of > Bob Bridges > Sent: Monday, March 27, 2023 4:41 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Stop the ragging on COBOL please > > Chiming in here because of the overwhelming popular demand for my unsolicited > opinions: I ~mostly~ agree with your definition of "programming language", > but I usually add that it has to have at least some primitive sort of if-then > construction. JCL didn't use to make the grade, but it does now. So yeah, > when I'm listing the programming languages I can use I sometimes include JCL > ... barely. > > Lacking if-then, the language is simply a list of programs or commands to be > run one after the other, like MS .bat language was at first and as QMF is now > (or was when I last used it). I call instructions written in those languages > "scripts", and decline to use that word for programs written in REXX, VBA, > CLIST and the like, which are full-scale programming languages. > > --- > Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 > > /* Every year, on April 15, all members of Congress would be placed in > individual prison cells with the necessary tax forms and a copy of the Tax > Code. They would remain locked in the cells, without food or water, until > they had completed their tax returns and successfully undergone a full IRS > audit. Of course this system would probably result in a severe shortage of > congresspersons. But there might also be some drawbacks. -Dave Barry's plan > to simplify the tax code, 2000-04-09 */ > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of > Pommier, Rex > Sent: Monday, March 27, 2023 16:18 > > Using my most basic definition of a computer language - it's a list of > commands that can be saved to run it multiple times just by invoking the list > name, then both JCL and CLIST are languages (as is HTML), and both have > redeeming qualities. How many of you (hypothetically) are running JCL > "decks" (and I used that term on purpose) that were first built on punch > cards with little to no change since they were first built? JOL anybody? I > would say a redeeming value of JCL is that there's nothing out there to > easily replace it. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to > lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The information contained in this message is confidential, protected from > disclosure and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this message is > not the intended recipient or an employee or agent responsible for delivering > this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any > disclosure, distribution, copying, or any action taken or action omitted in > reliance on it, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have > received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by > replying to this message and destroy the material in its entirety, whether in > electronic or hard copy format. Thank you. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
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