On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 7:23 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht < elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za> wrote:
> John McKown wrote: > > >> You can always write a 3rd SORT system with a build in programming > language. Hopefully that system is sort of free... > > >Oh, yeah. Perhaps based on Guile (big grin) > >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Guile. It's a LISP variant. > > Hmmmm, very very interesting part of the GNU project. I have bookmarked > that! Many thanks! > > > >CA-Easytrieve Plus might fit your bill. Of course, being as how it's > from CA, it is not free at all. But it is faster and easier to write than > COBOL. > > My purse (usually empty and made from scottish leather) will drop me real > faster than I write than COBOL or use that software ... > > Groete / Greetings > Elardus Engelbrecht > > Well, I understand your comments on DFSORT's control language. ICETOOL + SYMNAMES does a lot to enhance DFSORT. But a more "general purpose" language, building on these, might be nice. I can imagine such a thing, even though I don't have the talent to actually design it. I'm not an application programmer, I'm a dumb old sysprog. -- The unfacts, did we have them, are too imprecisely few to warrant our certitude. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
