what is the concept of text, routine , macro and differentiate between them

Question

This is the example we are using those concepts here

?SECTION <program name> MACRO

?SECTION <program name> TEXT

?SECTION <program name> ROUTINE

Answer 1

There are mainly three types of TACL files Macro , Routine & Text.

Text:- It is simply means that we have bunch of commands we want to execute on Tandem so we create a Text type file.

E.g. here we want to print bunch of statements so we have created a print TEXT .

?SECTION print TEXT
#OUTPUT Hello1
#OUTPUT Hello2
#OUTPUT Hello3

Routine:- Routine have bunch of arguments which are compulsory to pass when we are executing Routine's on tandem.

Macros:- Macros have also have arguments but they are not compulsory to pass during execution.