On Thu, 12 Jul 2018 12:32:55 +0000, Pew, Curtis G wrote: >On Jul 11, 2018, at 11:27 PM, Andrew Rowley wrote: >> That's sort of true, but it vastly expands the competition. It makes HTML, >> even GML programming languages. Is JCL a worse programming language than GML? > >That’s kind of how I meant it. I think of JCL as much closer to XML or JSON >than to something like BASIC. You can’t, for example, use JCL to add two >numbers. > Which was one incentive for my using a program to generate JCL. When I want to create a multi-file tape a script automates creating the sequence number in the label. If I add a file I don't need to modify all later steps.
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