I don't think that anyone is defending bad programming practices, but not all of us have the luxury of knowing what every program running on our production systems is doing. Some were written long ago, some by vendors, and some by just bad programmers. As a systems person I have to make sure that programs that ran yesterday can run today without any changes to them. Business is business and changes cost $$$$, so even if the code was poorly written, if it is running now it better run tomorrow.
Jon L. Veilleux [email protected] (860) 636-2683 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 2:45 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Interesting APAR OA27291 an undocumented change to GETMAIN Behavior in z/OS 1.10 >Just as a side note, I remember learning long ago to always initialize >static areas Again, basic. Again, I agree. And, I can't understand the defensive stants, of those who don't/won't believe that basic programming is wrong! Forgetting to init is inexcusable! - Too busy driving to stop for gas! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 This e-mail may contain confidential or privileged information. If you think you have received this e-mail in error, please advise the sender by reply e-mail and then delete this e-mail immediately. Thank you. Aetna ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
