Charles Mills wrote:
Does my problem seem
that unreasonable?
I feel an honest RCA yields the notion that IBM lacks the resources to adequately "catch up and surpass" within the
OS360 metaphor
45 years of Unix/C toolchain development by thousands of developers paid and unpaid. So as you and I have discussed,
and as I'm
sure you are on board with, what z/OS folks who want to compile C/C++ programs
for OMVS should do is embrace the Unix/C
toolchain and assimilate it into your practice as quickly as possible. If only
to preserve your own sanity.
I sympathize. Imagine what I've experienced swimming upstream the other
direction into mainframe land. Linking and Accessing
and Detaching minidisks one after another looking for this or that admin file I
need to edit which I would find on Unix by
locate filename.foo
or
find / | grep filename.foo
But it's a lovely world you inhabit, in its own way.
* The purity and simplicity of the mainframe approach.
* The focus on squeezing every ounce of capacity and performance for the
corporate Mission.
* The notion that a $10M computer the size of a meat locker can be programmed
in assembly code via a TRS-80-like
interface.
* The maturity of CP and the macro libraries, and on the OS side the
perfection of record-based computing.
* The centrality of Rexx, still one of the finest programming metaphors of the
digital binary computing era.
In many ways, mainframe practice is entirely admirable, aesthetically and scientifically satisfying, fully worthy of
study by young
developers operating in the Unix and Wintel environments.
--
Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of
www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe
www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. - Carl Sagan
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