The notion of waiting ages for programs to compile or assemble is mostly related to the older hardware.

I compile/assemble COBOL and IBM's assembly language on a z13 daily and it's pretty much instantaneous.

> The notion of waiting ages for programs to compile or assemble is mostly related to the older hardware.

Oh, I was talking more about older ways to organize the data centre: batch vs timeshare processing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-sharing

The bots just exposed that they're only running Cleverbot

I confirm I heard them say that too (they were asking for each other names, one replied : "My name is cleverbot").

I thought it was pretty obvious it was using Cleverbot. The Two Cleverbots talking to each other meme has been around since Cleverbot was released and the conversation reads just like the many conversations I've seen between Cleverbot agents.

I don't know. When mirroring two Cleverbots against each other it's nowhere near as impressive.

IBM's High-Level Assembler and JCL mostly.

I develop mainframe software.

I recently had to put together a small program with JCL for work, and had real difficulty in finding documentation. Can you recommend anything?

Most of what I've learned has been from examples from co-workers, but I've also used the IBM knowledge center and the IBM "Redbooks".

I think the Redbook titled z/OS Basics has some JCL examples and exercises in it.

I also found this through a quick search: http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/zosbasics/com.ibm...