Management by inertia. How well does your manager knw REXX (I have my suspicions.)?
FWIW, I don't care for Perl syntax but it's one of the languages I use at home. Why? Regexen are too powerful to ignore and CPAN maintains an awesome package library. A programmer with only one language is like a bird with only one wing. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Pew, Curtis G <curtis....@austin.utexas.edu> Sent: Friday, June 28, 2019 11:22 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: controversy? Using _any_ tool or only _specific_ tools? On Jun 28, 2019, at 9:27 AM, John McKown <john.archie.mck...@gmail.com<mailto:john.archie.mck...@gmail.com>> wrote: This is just for discussion. I am seemingly one of few z/OS sysprogs (et al.) who view UNIX services as just another set of tools in the box, along with the "legacy" z/OS tools. E.g. I am just as willing to use "awk" for something as REXX. But I've noticed that many, my manager included, who basically avoid any programming other than REXX, and then only "TSO" REXX. Even when I use UNIX for an "ad hoc" report for myself, my manager is "unhappy" with it and asks why I don't just use REXX. Why don't I? Well, for one thing, I like and use Extended Regular Expressions. Oh, wait, those are evil too. It's just mildly irritating to be shackled to "how I do it". It's the same attitude that the CIO has -- he doesn't understand z/OS, doesn't want to learn z/OS, and so z/OS must be eliminated for efficiency reasons. Well, I’m with you on using Unix tools wherever appropriate. I’m currently moving a bunch of 30+ year old assembler code to Unix directories so I can use git to manage it. I’m fortunate that the management that was in place when I was hired here explicitly looked for candidates that were willing to learn new things, and despite the efforts of subsequent generations of management that ethos hasn’t completely disappeared. -- Pew, Curtis G curtis....@austin.utexas.edu<mailto:curtis....@austin.utexas.edu> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
