Sure. And as my dad used to tell me, "Sure, you can do it; but if you make a mistake I'll get mad at you, but if I do it myself and make a mistake, I'll only be mad at myself". So I like coding my own statements, even aside from it being quicker.
--- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* It is not fatigue simply as such that produces anger, but unexpected demands on a man already tired. Whatever men expect, they soon come to think they have a right to; the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill on our part, be turned into a sense of injury. -advice to a tempter, from The Screwtape Letters by C S Lewis */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: Wednesday, November 8, 2023 07:07 I found that it took less time to punch my own programs than to have the keypunch operators do it; as you noted, errors. The same applies to typing once I had access to FORMAT and, later, SCRIPT. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN