From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2006-09-08T05:39:39+09:00
Subject: Re: A little idiom I like

On 9/7/06, Trans <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
> I recollect an old OS called COS (Cobol Operating System?) That
> actually used dot notation to separate directories. Now if only that
> would have caught on and our object systems and file system could have
> become seemless entiites. He he. I'm dreaming...

Then of course there was a family of operating systems which started
in the 1960s from a little known computer company named with three
letters like HAL, or JCN, or something like that that used /'s
extensively in it's "shell" language, something like

//STEP1 EXEC PGM=IEBCOPY
//SYSIN DD *
THIS IS SOME DATA
/*
//SYSOUT DD DSN="FRED"

Which was sort of like the equivalent of $cat >FRED

T'was something like that, the memory fades away.

-- 
Rick DeNatale

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