Ah, the Slash-asterisk /* ! I was young... The first course I taught was JCL, in 1972. And the terrific DD cards... Le samedi 27 août 2022 Ceruzzi, Paul a écrit ceci :
I just learned of the passing of Larry Josephson, whose radio program I used to listen to while growing up in the New York metropolitan region in the 1960s. I won't go into details, only to say that the Wikipedia entry for him does not come close to describing what it was like to listen to WBAI in its heyday.
Years later I had a chance to meet him, and when I told him of my scholarly interests, he told me that he was the person who developed the codes for IBM's Job Control Language (JCL). Including the Slash-asterisk /*
Now you know.
-- Laurent Bloch - https://laurentbloch.net - lb@laurentbloch.org Si vous trouvez que l'éducation coûte cher, essayez l'ignorance ! (A. Lincoln)