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		Animats on Feb 7, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: An Introduction to Class Warfare for the Software ... Yes. Companies used to send people to "IBM School", to learn COBOL or Job Control Language. If you have to pay to train people, the technology tends to be kept simple and understandable.

AnimalMuppet on Feb 7, 2023 [–]

If I parsed that correctly, you're using JCL as an example of a technology that was kept simple and understandable. That, um, is not the way I think about JCL...

Animats on Feb 8, 2023 | [–]

Good point.

I used UNIVAC mainframes, not IBM. They had a different control language which wasn't too bad.

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