In the heady days of pre-Y2K, I spent a few years as a freelance sysprog. At one site - this involved going through hundreds of in-house assembler programs - finding the source, bringing them under Endevor control and making sure that they were ready for Y2K.
I think it was during this time that I lost a lot of hair - I think I have seen it all : (1) Asm programs with 1000+ lines without a single comment or reg equate (2) Non-trivial programs using R15 as base (3) Comments that are deliberately wrong (4) Bible verses in the comments (no - really!) (5) Really bad swearing in comments and "interestingly" named variables I could go on but my therapist says it is best not to... I had many "firing-squad and wall" fantasies during this period. So the old 'real programmers don't do comemnts' joke makes my left eye twitch somewhat as I look around for the nearest clock tower..... Rob Scott Rocket Software http://www.rs.com/portfolio/mxi/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
