For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.

So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with.

As a linguist, I don't think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is just a medium-sized language.

Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?

Maybe we should take a clue from FTP and put in an option like 'print hash marks on every 1024 iterations'.

I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company.

One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.