On Nov 7, 2012, at 08:21, McKown, John wrote:

> I know where our "love" of putting sequence numbers in columns 73-80 comes 
> from. But the only thing that I know of that continues to really use them is 
> IEBUPDTE. ...
>
> So, other than being "non main stream" and even "obsessively weird", is there 
> any *technical* reason to maintain sequence numbers?
>
Some of our anti-"obsessively weird" developers have insisted
that it makes it easier to cite passages in code reviews.
Their numbers are dwindling as we too use a UNIX-based source
control system.  But get Shmuel's opinion.

-- gil

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