I may not have stated that as I meant it - I did try to indicate my meaning by using "that . . . horse *of yours* . . .", intending to mean just him and not all. Not well written, mea culpa, but it was a rant.
I have encountered other systems programmers of that type throughout my career, but by no means are all systems programmers like that. Some have even been friends. The general attitude towards all application programmers that he displayed just p***ed me off, and sometimes I let that get out when I should probably hold my (virtual) tongue. Peter -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Sent: Monday, April 13, 2015 10:28 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Standard IBM Enterprise COBOL Service to convert ASCII to EBCDIC In <985915eee6984740ae93f8495c624c6c2368d57...@jscpcwexmaa1.bsg.ad.adp.com>, on 04/13/2015 at 09:21 AM, "Farley, Peter x23353" <peter.far...@broadridge.com> said: >Please get off that ridiculously high systems programmer horse of >yours and join us here in the 21st century. You almost had me their, but it seems that you are Ed; it is no more valid to assume that all systems programmers are alike than to assume that all applications programmers are alike. -- This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and delete the message and any attachments from your system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
