Re: Confessions of an "OO Foreigner"

From: Judson McClendon (judmc_at_sunvaley0.com)
Date: 01/01/04 

Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2004 12:09:52 GMT

"RKRayhawk" <rkrayhawk@aol.com> wrote:
> ...
> You can describe IMS with object oriented terms, although it did not need that
> to come into existance. The programmers of IMS and of CICS would have had a
> major challenge without recursion, however. ...

I don't have any IMS or CICS experience, but it seems you would mean
'reentrant' rather than 'recursion'? Not sure how 'recursion' would apply here. 

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