In article <0086720150876766.wa.paulgboulderaim....@listserv.ua.edu> you wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 19:52:50 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote:
> >xSAM? I don't know of any language on z/OS* other than HLASM that supports
> >BPAM.
> >
> I believe that SAS/C (ISV) support{s|ed} a construct such as fopen(
> "DD:"ddname"("member")", ... );
> presumably employing BPAM.
Yes, SAS/C uses BPAM.
> And early in the development of the QSAM/BSAM interface to allocated
> HFS files the facility was referred to as xSAM. The name was deprecate
> as an overload.
> >At this point, if I invest the time to master** a new language, I'd be
> >looking at Java, Ruby or Rust rather than Python.
> >
> >* Assembler E, F, XF, H and H V2 don't count; they're not supported. It
> >might, however
> > be fun to see if thy will still run.
> >
> >** I mean a lot more than just Hello world
> -- gil
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