Re: Effi[ci]ency of branch table vs individual compare & branch

rom C Wright Mills, I shall call Crackpot Realism; and CR needs representation here. We need to be reminded, often, that those who identify the hard-to-maintain with 'complexity', with the use of any but ad hoc schemes, are numerous out t

Re: Effi[ci]ency of branch table vs individual compare & branch

independent of n and any oirdering of tests for n < 2^8 + 1 = 257 (or for n < 2^16 + 1 = 65537 if a TROO instructrion and a larger table are used). There is thus little excuse for the use of thickets of nested if-then-elses. Here, as elsewhere, an explicit, reusable table-driven scheme is be

Re: assembler question (strong typing)

table in which searches always fail in place.) The range checking that Rosenberg mentioned is indeed optional. It is enabled by prefixing a single executable statement or a block with (subscriptrange): as in (subscriptrange): m = (l + h)/2 ;

Re: assembler question (strong typing)

their writer's views of how it should behave differently would be highly desirable. One's own macros may do what one wants them to do witrhout imposing one's own perhaps parochial episteme on others. John Gilmore Ashlan

Re: assembler question (strong typing)

at]ed idioms to the use of list- and pointer-orient[at]ed ones instead, not least because such conversions are anyway all but impossible; but I do find attempts to introduce COBOL-like assembly-time constraints into the HLASM very disagreeable. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-181

Re: assembler question (strong typing)

egret it because it triggered Paul's here otiose reference to PL/I. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Get free, personalized commercial-free online radio with MSN Radio powered by Pandora http://radio.msn.com/?icid=T0

Re: assembler question (strong typing)

vehicle for use by novices is, I think, an open one. Let them write C or Pascal! Devoting any of the very limited resources available for maintaining and enhancing the HLASM to childproofing it would come far down on my personal wish list for it. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA

Re: Shane's antipodes

that they have one or both of their termini (terminuses?) in an ocean. Cherbourg, France, and an archipelago just south of New Zealand are, however, legitimate, non-moot antipodes. To summarize, as is too often the case, Merriam-Webster got it wrong for the usual ideological reasons. The cult of

Re: SYS1.MAN allocation question

REOPTIONS(2) - SPANNED - SPEED - VOLUME(SYS004) ) Compatibly with Mark Zelden's BUFFERSPACE(106496) recommendation and your own CONTROLINTERVALSIZE(26624) value, I would change RECORDSIZE(26614,32767) which may be an old typo, to RECORDSIZE(26624,32767) John Gilmore A

Shane's antipodes

ike octopus/octopodes, it should be shared with the rest of us. More seriously, we do need a set of FAQ archive references, not least in order to make circumstantially adequate answers to such questions as How can SYS1.LINKLIB be expanded? and What are the job and jobstep maxima for DD state

less generic, more informative subject lines

down the road. Let's all try to make our title lines for OPs more descriptive of what they contain. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Use your PC to make calls at very low rates https://voiceoam.pcs.v2s.liv

Re: assembler question

tifying. I would thus reformulate Rick's criterion as something like SLITA must be able to pick up a listing and understand . . . John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ All-in-one security and maintenance for your PC. Get a

Re: Memlimit (yes, again ...) Was: Java Error

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Re: assembler question

d to be addressed, ideally by retraining them as ribbon clerks; but the avoidance of constructions that they may misunderstand is a dubious way of attempting to do so. There is too much that they would not understand. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA ___

Memlimit (yes, again ...) Was: Java Error

ven four, but five of the eight participants in a Java code-optimization workshop managed to do it inadvertently, which is of course the best way. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Stay in touch with old friends and meet new ones

reusability hierarchy

incompatibility with what was and is. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Stay in touch with old friends and meet new ones with Windows Live Spaces http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwsp007001msn/direct/01/?href=http://

Re: question on the load list

reentrant; but NOT vice versa. Everyone appears to have his own notion of what reentrant means, and in consequence other terms, e.g., the CICS-jargon phrase "thread-safe", are being introduced to disambiguate it. It may be, however, that "reentrant" itself can be rehabi

Re: Is the teaching of non-reentrant HLASM coding practices ever defensible?

the HLASM macro language is radically underused and under appreciated. (People of course code macro instructions, but they don't often write their own macro definitions.) But that is a topic for another thread in another place . . . John Gilmore Ashland, MA

Re: Is the teaching of non-reentrant HLASM coding practices ever defensible?

than the corresponding reentrant one is no argument for writing non-reentrant code. In the light of the character of the defenses of doing so set out here after my post, I must, however, conclude that this issue is for some an emotional and not an intellectual one. So be it! John Gilmore

Re: Is the teaching of non-reentrant HLASM coding practices ever defensible?

conjunction is used is, however, ridiculous (and ridiculed memorably by Fowler). The other major use of semicolons (outside of ALGOL-like statement-level procedural languages) is as separators for independent clauses (linked by conjunctions) that themselv

Is the teaching of non-reentrant HLASM coding practices ever defensible?

who are already familiar with storage classes (with the differences among static, LIFO automatic, and non-LIFO heap storage) can and should be introduced to reentrant assembly-language methods at the outset of their training. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _

Re: questions on the load list . . .

Chris Craddock wrote: In practice those limitations are trivially defeated, which is one of the many reasons I maintain that non-reentrant modules are just a bad idea and ought to be avoided, especially by privileged code. My view is less charitable. There are now few if any---I can in

Re: batch PL/I program

Linkage Editor, which you should not be using at this late date, accept their outputs as inputs.) We can give you more precise advice iff you describe your objectives more fully. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Use your PC

Re: What's a programninbg language?

ogrified into a dancing bear. Why? A bear is, I suppose, a more plausible biped than a dog; but something more sinister may be afoot here. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Add fun gadgets and colorful themes to express your

Re: What's a programming language?

By DEFAULT an HLASM statement is continued on subsequent card images beginning in column 16. If, however, this default is inconvenient the ICTL assembler statement is available for modifying it. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA

Re: What's a programming language?

John P. Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I have not yet taken the time to look at the question in detail, but Perlis's formulation seems to me to be totally inadequate. and I am reminded of a Sicilian proverb, "Fucilato, un re dev'essere ucciso". John Gilmore

Re: What's a programming language

seems unlikely that it will be possible to replace it with a more perspicuous formulation anytime soon. On Perlis's formulation LISP is a programming language. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Find a local pizza pl

Re: Monitoring Above the Bar Storage Usage

We have already discussed this issue here ad infinitum et nauseam here. Coinsult the archives! John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Add fun gadgets and colorful themes to express yourself on Windows Live Spaces http

Re: ICKDSF INSTALL -- What's the point?

ing else under it, suspect the worst: The motive for doing so is seldom to clarify: it is almost always to obfuscate. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ The next generation of Search—say hello! http://imagine-windowsl

Re: COBOL Compiler APF

a compiler into shared storage in, for example, a testing/development LPAR.] So many posts; so much careless misunderstanding. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ The next generation of Search—say hello! http://imagine

Re: What should an IN|OUT parm be called?

ld . . . for(input) . . . . . . for(output) . . . . . . for(update) . . . John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Get today's hot entertainment gossip http://movies

Re: wars and allies

Most of the sentiments being expressed in this thread were familiar to the ancient Greeks, and Voltaire provided the definitive statement a 250 years ago: «Presque toute l'histoire est une suite d'atrocités inutiles» ---Voltaire, Essai sur l'histoire générale, 1756. John

Re: static versus dynamic linking

hat COBOL program's LOCAL-STORAGE section, i.e., if their storage class is automatic. The other advice proffered in this thread has reflected other confusions, misunderstandings, and even radical misconceptions, so many of them as to make it worth little. John Gilm

Re: VSAM space allocation in KB, MB, and RECORDS

pancy grows into a 13% one. The original JCL design decision was not irrational, but it was very much of its time, and we need this new distinction now. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Windows Live Spaces is here! It’s easy

Re: program lock token

enumerates. For now at least, it is clean, not encrusted with historic usage oddities, familiar and even unobjectionable as they may be to those of us who have lived with and through their evolution, that seem odd to newcomers and are better jettisoned. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA

Re: Discussion on LE PARM performance tuning

report for each application and setting the LE's stack and heap sizes for that application using the results that this report yields. As I have had occasion to note here before, those who seek magical solutions to their problems shouild consult a haruspex instead of querying this list. John

Re: storage tags

ordinarily used for production. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Get real-time traffic reports with Windows Live Local Search http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=42.336065~-109.392273&style=r&lvl=4&sc

Re: Absolute value packed decimal in SyncSort

of that 24-bit PD field. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Check the weather nationwide with MSN Search: Try it now! http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=weather&FORM=WL

Fatuities (was 'Another BIG mainframe . . . ')

because of their historical association with an obsolete episteme. They must be dispensed with in order to dispose of their caretakers. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Call friends with PC-to-PC calling -- FREE http

Re: What part of z/OS is the OS?

7;. Ergo, an OS is . . . John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Check the weather nationwide with MSN Search: Try it now! http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q

Re: SYSSTATE_OSREL

EM_ID, which discriminates among z/OS, CMS and VSE, providing version, release and modification-level values for each. See p. 293 of the current (1.5) HLASM LRM. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Check the weather nationwide wit

Re: HLASM macro-call question (assembler list)

Yes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Two of its chief merits are o the quality of its contributors, although there is significant overlap with IBM_MAIN, and o the fact that John Ehrman, who owns the HLASM, and his (remote Australian) development team are active participants. John Gilmore Ashland

Re: HLASM macro call question

trary view noted, this thread nevertheless belongs on and should be moved to the assembler list. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Got something to buy, sell or swap? Try Windows Live Expo ttp://clk.atdmt.com/M

Re: EXCP with a DEB

no, the default, or diag=yes, which generates such machinery. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm0

EXCP with a DEB

27; makes some things unavailable, or at least very much more difficult of access, to the unlearned; and this is useful. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it

Re: EXCP with a DEB

locksmiths in it who can open them, and I suppose that there is a similar rationale for the skills needed to breach z/OS, but this is a public forum in which I for one do not think we should facilitate such operations by unknown people. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA

Re: vendor JCL

textbooks having titles like "Calculus made easy": They achieve their objectives, when they do, by leaving the hard parts out. In the end pandering to clots, however compelling the arguments of the marketing VP for doing so may seem to be, is always ill-advised.

Re: vendor JCL

ecalled, at her death, that Eleanor Roosevelt "would rather light a candle than curse the darkness".) John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE!

Re: WHY IS JCL ALLERGIC TO LOWER CASE?

ld not be allowed to cast votes in some curious election, but they are clearly entitled to express their opinions and give advice here. If they were not IBM-MAIN woul.d wither and die very quickly. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA

Re: WHY IS JCL ALLERGIC TO LOWER CASE?

ently. I should like to see [largely] case-independent JCL, utility control statements, etc., etc.; but Paul's retrospective recipe for olbtaining them is utopian. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Don’t just se

Re: Java packed decimal

stigmatized, as a standard practice, is also a good one, the best one at least until ASCII DFP becomes available on z/Architecture machines. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Don’t just search. Find. Check out the new MSN

Re: Java Packed Decimal

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Re: Homoeoteleutera et al.

eria. Bill Fairchild's conjecture is thus entirely correct, and I will try to avoid Greek very largely in the future. (I was strong tempted to use Hapax legomenon [mot ou expression qui n’apparaît qu’une seule fois dans un corpus donné, παξ λεγόμενον] earlier today, but in t

Re: SEQUENCE NUMBERS

em. So be it. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar – get it now! http://toolbar.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200415ave

Re: sequence numbers (or whatever)

is pried from our lifeless fingers, is dysfunctional. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar – get it now! http://toolbar.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200415ave

Re: SEQUENCE NUMBERS

ago. Affection for obsolete technology is understandable, even beguiling; but it is counter-productive. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE!

Re: SEQUENCE NUMBERS

SNs were useful when cataloged procedures and source programs were maintained using such batch edit utilities as IEBUPDTE and IEBUPDAT. Their current uses are exiguous; they are of only antiquarian interest; and even that interest has, it seems to me, been exhausted. John Gilmore Ashland, MA

Re: List of instructions by architecture level?

| compiled at ARCH(n) runs on machines in the ARCH(m) group if and only if m >= n. | The list you seek is implicit in this text. With very little effort you can extract it. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Is your

ABCs of z/OS System Programming volume 10 (Redpiece)

A new, revised (redpiece) draft of volume 10 of the ABCs is available for downloading at the IBM redbook website. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Don’t just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http

Re: 64 bits is a really big number!

discarded. Analogously, there are z/Architecture situations in which eight-byte (64-bit) instructions are faster than their four-byte (32-bit) variants. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Don’t just search. Find. Check o

z/Architecture design errors

proach. It now has its hand held in the fire much more briefly than used to be the case. It is perhaps also worth noting that, while software errors are expensive, hardware errors are even more expensive and much more embarassing. It is much cheaper to find them before they get into silicon.

Re: Why is z series so CPU poor?

even to know that they do not know. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Don’t just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01

Re: newbie questions!

mistake to consult even the most experienced of them about the archeology or geology of the Canyon. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://mess

Re: Newbie Questions!

There is an IBM redbook, which you can download (no charge) at the IBM publications website, called Introduction to z/OS and the mainframe environment Get it and read it. You will then be able to reformulate your questions. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA From: "Kure

Re: 64-bits is a really big number!

advantage than time spent dismissing them as unrealistically sized. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ On the road to retirement? Check out MSN Life Events for advice on how to get there! http://lifeevents.msn.com/category

Re: cross memory assembler program help

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Re: Dump Reading (was Re: LSQA shortage)

eople waiting for me, dumps in hand, wherever I go. In this context anyway I would be pleased to be allowed "to get out of practice". John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Don’t just search. Find. Check out the

Re: Cryptographic Coprocessor and Random Numbers

ossible to test and maintain. Since then pseudo-random number generators that do yield reproducible sequences have mostly been used instead, even though, in von Neumann's words, everyone who uses one is "in a state of sin"

Re: curiosity

old no terrors for him, and he can deploy them confidently to analyze the performance of a routine or (instantiation of) an algorithm. The operation of separating the sheep from the goats, while possible, is not easy; and the possession or non-possession of some credential is unlikely to be very hel

Languages and computers

, we cannot solve quintics---as we can solve quartics, cubics and quadratics---in general. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Don’t just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-

Re: Old Hashing Routine

If you can use a 'new fangled' program object instead of a load module as your executable, then RMODE(SPLIT) provides a nice resolution of such problems as you describe: AMODE(24) for a few intractable, difficult to convert routines and RMODE(31) for all the rest. John Gilmore A

Re: AC=1 (was re: IEE028I)

use of AC=1 here is certainly silly, but it is NOT an integrity exposure unless the executable so marked in resident in an APF-authorized library. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ On the road to retirement? Check out MS

Re: SMP/E "target source library"

in formally correct ways. It would be better, however, to avoid both of these easily misunderstood constructs. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar – get it now! http://toolbar.msn.c

Re: AC=1 (was re: IEE028I)

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Re: What's your favorite ASCII and EBCDIC code pages?

tic characters in a code page into disjoint subsets of related ones and then decide which of these subsets you want to support. Character-by-character decisions don't (in my experience) work very well. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA __

Re: how to specify the z/OS LE runtime timezone ?

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Re: RMF report - field description

) 2^30 gibi Gi (SI decimal prefix is giga) 2^40 tebi Ti (SI decimal prefix is tera) 2^50 pebi Pi (SI decimal prefix is peta) 2^60 exbi Ei (SI decima;l prefix is exa) John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Express yourself

Re: 'Problem' with EXPDT on SynchSort SORTOUT

For SMS-managed datasets DataClass (not, directly, MgtClass, which can be used only to specify a maximal value) determines the default expiration date; and an explicit DD-statement EXPDT= [sub]parameter should be coded only to override this default value. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817

Re: password complexity

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Re: rexx or other macro processor on z/os?

,parm=, . . . and . . . ,parm=, . . . as equivalent; but, I think fortunately, there is no mechanism currently avaiable for ensuring that all of them do so. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ FREE pop-up blocking with

Re: Displaying WLM Policy installed in a WLM Couple Dataset

t the version that is appropriate to the z/OS you are using.) There's no rocket science involved, just middling competence in using HLASM macro instructions. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ On the road to retirement?

Re: rexx or other macro processor on z/os?

-program and data entry. Card images written to and read from magnetic tapes were used all but ab initio under OS/360. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Is your PC infected? Get a FREE online computer virus scan from McAfe

Re: submit job from SYSPUNCH

on code' can be checked WITHIN a single assembly step using the value of the HLASM system variable symbol &SYSM_HSEV, as in |&abortsetb (&SYSM_HBSEV ge &abort_severity_level) | aif &abort).abort in which &abort_severity_level, initialized in a SE

Re: How many stack entries can be comfortably added?

stack size/stack-frame count, either a default one or one specified in a predecessor LSEXPAND macro instruction; and note finally that you must be unlocked and in task mode when you issue an LSEXPAND macro instruction. John Gilmore Ashland,

The "Christmas Tree Virus"

ad design can be as lethal as malign intent. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ On the road to retirement? Check out MSN Life Events for advice on how to get there! http://lifeevents.msn.com/category

Re: offensive language

token 'specialist'. Why? If contains the offensive substring 'cialis'. Minimally, Darren will have to make an unautomated decision that an instance of 'offensive language' is of the sort that would be judged inappropriate by a standard Nice Nelly. John

Re: TOD Clock the same as the BIOS clock in PCs?

conversions are to and from ETOD and UTC, as I think they should be. Civil time is another kettle of fish/can of worms. I can imagine wishing to display it, but saving it is always and everywhere unwise. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA

Re: TOD Clock the same as the BIOS clock in PCs?

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Re: CC's new job . . .

All this speculation about Chris's apostacy is at best premature. Hed's entitled, minimally, to a honeymoon. Let's adjourn this thread for a year, giving him time to achieve something at CA. John Gilmore Ashland, MA

Re: What's the linkage editor really wants?

concatenated data sets must be either partitioned or sequential, not both. A PDS or PDSE member is treated as a sequential data set John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar – get it now

Re: Certain WTOs are slow to externalize

s to myself and WTO foir execution-time ones until I observed one oof my students using WTLs instead of WTOs. I asked her why; she produced a small study establishing that WTLs are indeed significantly, even very much faster in many circumstances; and I began to use them too. John Gilmore As

Re: Certain WTOs are slow to externalize

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Re: What's the linkage editor really want?

rlier point was that this UNIX syntax, whatever its merits in its original home, is without merit in Binder control statements, which until its introduction had a very different, coherent syntax. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _

Re: What's the linkage editor really wants?

odules but NCAL load modules.) John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Don’t just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave

Re: migrating me from linux/bsd to zOS

OS storage concepts, will get you started. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm002004

Re: time-synchronization latency

ing a lunar computer into such a network would probably not make the use of relativistic mechanics necessary. Relativistic mechanics is more interesting that classical, Newtonian mechanics; but for the foreseeable future its use here is, unfortunately, otiose. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-181

Re: The amazing shrinking batch window.

Tell us more about your problem and the programming language in which you are dealing with it. Is there really only one file involved? Or are there three, as in a classical MFU? John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA From: "Kannard, Stephen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-T

Re: SMP/E for non-sysprogs?

ive 'sysprogs' using SMP/E badly to have any great confidence in the notion that titles confer competence. Here, as elsewhere, it is important to think things and not words. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Exp

Re: the edit macro that won't

substr(string, substringo, substringl), majuscules, minuscules) ; return ; end majuscu ; The same thing could of course be done in assembly language, in COBOL, or even in C (although not quite so readily); and I find it peculiar that this obvious tradit

Re: DVLG "Binder Requirement" - interesting contradiction

stabilized'; it has been so for a very long time; and applications that continue to be packaged as load modules instead of program objects must expect to reap the whirlwind. How not? Even why not? John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _

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