"Après moi, le déluge." Charles de Gualle was right in a way.
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 7:35 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) < [email protected] <shmuel%[email protected]>> wrote: > In <[email protected]>, on 07/20/2010 > at 08:01 AM, Edward Jaffe <[email protected]> said: > > >I've seen other "old" programs with many hard-coded offsets and > >lengths and always wondered why this was such common practice back > >then. > > >Was it because there were a lot of inexperienced assembler > >programmers writing code? Was it because people thought the platform > >would not last and treated every program as a "throw away"? Was it > >due to limitations in the assembler itself? > > It was a combination of inexperienced programmers, poor training, > tunnel vision and a philosophy of "Après moi, le déluge." > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT > ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> > We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. > (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > -- Guy Gardoit z/OS Systems Programming ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
