[Default] On 14 Dec 2017 11:07:32 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main john.archie.mck...@gmail.com (John McKown) wrote:
>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. > Has IBM implemented the free-form option for compiling COBOL in the 2002 standard? Clark Morris > >> -- >> 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 >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
