On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 12:56 PM, Jack J. Woehr <j...@well.com> wrote:
> On 12/14/2017 7:25 AM, Gord Tomlin wrote: > >> All the make tools share an annoying reliance on tab characters. > > > This is somehow more pernicious than punch-card-column dependencies in > traditional IBM tools? :) IMO, the use of tabs as a "data character" is only annoying to people stuck on a 3270 display. I have _no_ problems with them when I'm using ssh to get a UNIX shell. Boiled down, I will agree that using UNIX tools in a TSO (3270) environment is annoying. Equally annoying, to me, is the column dependencies when I editing an HLASM or COBOL program from the UNIX shell. And don't get me going on the "vi" that IBM distributes. > -- > 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 > -- 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
