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. --- Bob Bridges, [email protected], cell 336 382-7313 /* 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
