Ultimately it's a management issue common to all languages: if programmers are not required to document and to keep documentation up to date, or, worse, are prohibited from "wasting time" doing so, there will be downstream consequences. In the case of COBOL there is also the pernicious myth that it is self documenting - no language is.
BTW, is there any shop still using CODASYL COBOL? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Mark Regan [marktre...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 9, 2020 11:16 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Old Code Gets Younger Every Year - Marianne Bellotti - Medium https://secure-web.cisco.com/1b-5A-k6m87QTuqyzbtnQj11SHVaJXaKjTnUPxpdSFiuZdewfEpzGWXFrNQU429jqXYBeZ4hkAlxT3dwOqilF88CSRyW-_NgSwlWsyj7sRwwUDLDv42jM5to-s_cB2PwkNZOAwdlREnOqHj8Z5NG_geFUVQiQSalS9G2b_-Vv-lOmNzr1w2DoxFhTgpEe1vl5WSMDwwChgYvdh2p8moci0AHnOb23dU-X5x1IgQZDBRRWxQV7SL-iUr-bBmPkjtCWqW5OoUGnpWYfYAgHKjgsIN0yd7RfpAuQstdzLgyxmoxhUXAMW7tz8nsr8yvioxLnon7_S31Bq7HViahTEIhK-n_F46JT4alOq53UrcW0QmMxL-X7nuNlhvhzy61B2WLAnBwT-dikGqH-DzsncM4a7jNKW-_Ok9sJM1Ef0H7sZ3n0XN5RiQm2VQ-pLaCJ3jGR_jCvq8GbbjxaqhnwgjHgAw/https%3A%2F%2Fmedium.com%2F%40bellmar%2Fold-code-gets-younger-every-year-3bd24c7f2262 Regards, Mark T. Regan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
