On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 9:53 AM, Edward Gould <edgould1...@comcast.net> wrote:
> > 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 > Ah, I think that maybe I understand (and agree). It's like before LE. I _hated_ trying to debug a simple abend in a COBOL program because the run-time kept messing up the original abend environment. I would demand a re-run with NOSPIE,NOSTAE so that I could find the original problem. -- I have a theory that it's impossible to prove anything, but I can't prove it. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
