Translation: job security.
On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 8:33 AM Brian Schott <[email protected]> wrote: > I mentioned this thread to a friend who used to manage a COBOL shop where > my spouse worked. > He made the comment below which my spouse interpreted to me because I did > not understand the implications. > Those of you familiar with the (ancient or recent?) COBOL environment may > appreciate this forwarded material. > > "More on the Cobol need – patching of production programs was a common > practice and then intending to update the source, recompile it later and > put it into the active object library and test it didn’t always get done – > this is yet another challenge for an incoming Cobol or any other commercial > application programmer to deal with. As one of the Beach Boys songs start > out – Fun, fun, fun ..." > > > > -- > (B=) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
