In
<985915eee6984740ae93f8495c624c6c21d230c...@jscpcwexmaa1.bsg.ad.adp.com>,
on 05/04/2011
at 09:07 AM, "Farley, Peter x23353" <[email protected]>
said:
>I disagree. The existence and intelligent use of labeled blocks of
>code (paragraphs and sections in COBOL, Procedures in PL/1, labels
>and sometimes separate CSECT/RSECT's in assembler) are what provide
>the tag to which you may direct a person or a computer's attention.
By "intelligent use" do you mean plcing labels that have no semantic
content? That would appear to be more awkward than sequence numbers.
>I think everyone here does (or should) already know that,
I question "does", but agree with "should", although I could make a
case[1] that both cvs and svn are obsolete. However, I can resist
anything except a good pun.
[1] In some Linux forum, not here.
--
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)
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