News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on What do Unix command names stand for?. Parent comment

Re:What do Unix command names stand for? by evacchi on Saturday June 16, 2018 @03:06AM (#17326310)
My favorite, related, piece of trivia about JCL is the IEFBR14 program: the no-op program that took a few attempts to get it right :-) [1]. Its entire purpose was motivated by JCL not having primary commands to do file management, which is only allowed as a "side effect" of executing a program

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEFBR14#Implementation

[ Parent | on HN ]

There are no comments on this comment yet.