8 Feb
2017
8 Feb
'17
11:22 p.m.
On Wednesday, 8 February 2017 at 22:51:12 +0000, ron minnich wrote:
On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 2:45 PM Greg 'groggy'
Lehey <grog(a)lemis.com> wrote:
I suppose one argument might be that JCL also had a /*
Greg
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// had a very different meaning in IBM JCL.
It's a sequence
indicating that a command follows, and I have a suspicion that it's
related to a prompt.
oh, believe me, I typed enough JCL to know. I was always just so amused by
the dd command that when I first saw // in C++, I had to wonder. It's a
question that's been banging around in my head for several decades ...