david@dhw68k.cts.com (David H. Wolfskill) (06/02/89)
[Please note that the original article(s) to which I am responding were in comp.std.c; since what I'm writing has negligible standards-related content, I changed the newsgroup to comp.lang.c. -- dhw] In article <219@maytag.waterloo.edu> giguere@aries5.waterloo.edu (Eric Giguere) writes: >In article <456@cybaswan.UUCP> iiit-sh@cybaswan.UUCP (Steve Hosgood) writes: >> Interesting though, I had never >>considered the possibility of non-contiguous numbers and alphabetics rearing >>its head now that EBCDIC is dead (slight :-)). >With all those IBM mainframes (you know, the ones that run VM/CMS, MVS, TSO, >etc. -- the operating systems that everyone in the papers is advertising >positions for all the time....) the demise of EBCDIC is still a looooooong >way off. There is a moderately active mailing list devoted to the subject of the C programming language in the (arguably hostile) environment of IBM 370-architecture machines (especially in conjunction with IBM's OSs for said machines, such as VM, MVS/{370,XA,ESA}, VSE, and ACP). If you would like to join the list, please send a request to join to: c-ibm-370-request@dhw68k.cts.com (of course, the above is case-insensitive). (In case it's not obvious, I wouldn't mind a bit more activity on the list.... :-) I am currently employed as a systems programmer, supporting MVS/XA; as a result of the familiarity with the system required by the position, I am also somewhat familiar with some of the ... ahhh... "quirks" of the environment; others on the list are even more so. >.... >So programming one of those mainframes doesn't >have to be so bad since there's a real language available.... Ummmm.... With all due respect -- and a great deal of appreciation for those intrepid souls who decided to try to bring C to the 370 environment -- I suggest that "a real language" isn't quite all it takes. However, this would probably be better taken to the mailing list, since I strongly doubt that very many readers of the net who are interested in C are also interested in IBM-style mainframes. Cheers, david -- David H. Wolfskill uucp: ...{spsd,zardoz,felix}!dhw68k!david InterNet: david@dhw68k.cts.com