On 2012-08-29 11:42, Edward Jaffe wrote:
On 8/29/2012 11:07 AM, John Ehrman wrote:
But be careful: I've seen many examples of poor coding practices that --
simply because they were familar -- were propagated from one program to
another, to the detriment of all.
When I worked for a large bank in the 1980s, and saw how "new" JCL was
constructed there, I conjectured that all batch JCL is descended from the
same
singular job stream.
There's an old joke that Adm. Grace Hopper wrote the first COBOL program,
and every COBOL program since is a derivative. But there are kernels of
truth in such jocularity, as even today I start brand-new assembler code by
copying a skeleton with the entry/exit/work area macros.
Side humour: My T-bird spelling check wants to correct "Jaffe" to "Gaffe".
--
M. Ray Mullins
Roseville, CA, USA
http://www.catherdersoftware.com/
German is essentially a form of assembly language consisting entirely of far
calls heavily accented with throaty guttural sounds. ---ilvi
French is essentially German with messed-up pronunciation and spelling.
--Robert B Wilson
English is essentially French converted to 7-bit ASCII. ---Christophe Pierret
[for Alain LaBonté]
