How about this one?

Customer on phone: Your product blew up.
Me: Oh, very sorry, what was the error message?
Customer: I don't know. We already deleted the SYSOUT. Something about an error 
occurred.

Charles


-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf 
Of Bob Bridges
Sent: Friday, February 3, 2023 10:10 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: I want to cry

It is a little distressing, though (at least to me), to observe how many 
"programmers" never ~have~ seen anything but COBOL.

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/* How agitated I am when I am in the garden, and how happy I am to be so 
agitated.  Nothing works just the way I thought it would, nothing looks just 
the way I had imagined it, and when sometimes it does look like what I had 
imagined (and this, thank God, is rare) I am startled that my imagination is so 
ordinary.  -Jamaica Kincaid, _My Garden Book_ */


-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of zMan
Sent: Friday, February 3, 2023 10:50

And unless COBOL is the only programming language you've ever seen, it seems 
unlikely that you wouldn't know what a variable is.

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