> On Dec 8, 2017, at 7:42 AM, John McKown <john.archie.mck...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I should probably be silent, but "what the hay". Ed seems towards LE the > same way that many are towards PDSEs. They were an early adopter, got > burned, and forever relegated the idea to the "pile of shit" category. It > reminds me of my mom. She kept saying "never get a color T.V. They are junk > because the image is so fuzzy.". When I got old enough to afford one, I got > one. And my mom loved it because they had improved so much since she first > saw one. It would be like me hating DFSMS because DF/EF was a pile of junk > which burned my butt clean off. As an aside, I am now writing most of my > HLASM to be LE compliant (CEEENTRY) because it makes it easier for me to > write RENT,REUS code. And I need it to interoperate with the C run-time, > which I (ab)use with great abandon.
John, When LE works it works, when it doesn’t that is when you get into the nasty parts (as the Brits say). *IF* LE was easy to debug then all would be wonderful but it is not. Ed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
