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> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Lindy Mayfield
>
> While searching for CCW command codes (x'08' actually) I ran across
> this page of a computer science professor at Northern Illinois
> University. It seems they are learning some serious mainframe.
> http://www.cs.niu.edu/~rrannie/homepagA.html
>
>
> My favorite bit is from the CS-468 course syllabus.
> http://www.cs.niu.edu/~rrannie/syl468S7.html
>
> "In this course programming will be carried out under a number of rules
> that, if you have not already discerned them, are those used in the
> 'real world' and which you may be assured you will encounter shortly
> after graduation. One of those rules is that a program which does NOT
> DO WHAT IT IS SUPPOSED TO DO -- REGARDLESS of how long or how hard or
> how much you 'sweat blood over it', is still, just, and only, a pile of
> chicken scratchings. It is NOT 50% or 10% or ANY percent a program! IT
> IS AN UN-PROGRAM!
>
> "AFTER you graduate you won't get paid by an employer for a
> program that doesn't work and BEFORE you graduate you won't get a grade
> in this course for a program that doesn't work. Don't ever forget that
> folks won't pay for parachutes that 'almost' work!"
If you go to a SHARE conference, you can meet Dr. Rannie in person. He's
usually the one carrying "The Paddle" at the Thursday night SCIDS.
-jc-
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