*Personally* I agree, but different languages for different folks. Some people are very comfortable in assembler, especially with the structured macros. I think I can state with some confidence that if @EdJaffe need to parse some JSON documents he would do it from assembler.
COBOL does not seem like a great choice either to me personally, but some folks, and especially some shops, are most comfortable with COBOL. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of David Crayford IMO, assembler isn't the right language to be parsing complex JSON documents. I couldn't think of a worse language for the job. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN