Hi Would you call DFSORT a programing language? It has conditional logic, variables, it can compute, change data... Regards Jack
On Mon, Nov 11, 2024, 00:16 Phil Smith III <[email protected]> wrote: > Radoslaw Skorupka wrote, in part: > >Short answer: NO WAY. > >However you can use some *programming* language for that, including REXX. > > >Simple explanation: > >JCL is *not* a programming language. > >JCL "piece of code" is called job, not program. > > First, I'm not disagreeing with you here. But this does make me wonder one > more time, as I have in the past: "Just what IS required for something to > be a 'programming language'"? > > Does it have to have loops? Variables? A compiler (I'd say "no, or various > scripting languages might not qualify", and I don't think anyone would buy > that)? Does HTML qualify? It has the L-word but that doesn't prove > anything. Etc. I know people who think JCL does count. Can we prove them > right or wrong by some objective definition? > > Thoughts? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
