With good documentation, I can agree. But when the documentation is nonexistent, using some variable names like X1, or I, is just mean!
The X1 guy never had his feet held to the flame by his boss, and guess who was the first to bail when word of the company sale came out? Next, guess who the PDB was who picked up the programs? Daniel McLaughlin Z-Series Systems Programmer Crawford & Company 4680 N. Royal Atlanta Tucker GA 30084 phone: 770-621-3256 fax: 770-621-3237 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.crawfordandcompany.com This transmission is intended exclusively for the individual or entity to which it is addressed. This communication may contain information that is confidential, proprietary, privileged or otherwise exempt from disclosure. If you are not the named addressee, you are NOT authorized to read, print, retain, copy or disseminate this communication, its attachments or any part of them. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this communication from all computers. David Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> 11/07/2006 11:29 AM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> To [email protected] cc Subject Re: Assembler question On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 10:52 -0500, Daniel A. McLaughlin wrote: > picked up too much code of various stripes where the person thought X1, > X2, etc., made good variable names. Oh, don't be too hard on them. To this day I use loop counters "I", "J", "K"... a holdover from my ForTran days, uncountable years ago. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
