My degree is in Accounting, but I discovered computer programming during the course of my studies and was thoroughly hooked; I went straight into applications development after graduation. More than one prospective employer looked at me with stars in their eyes saying "Oh, at last, a programmer to whom we don't have to explain double-entry bookkeeping!".
(And they didn't. That was decades ago, but double-entry still makes sense to me and I have ambitions of writing a double-entry app in Access for my own use.) Ironically, though, it never happened that I was assigned to any accounting areas. In the end I always ended up working for Marketing or some such. --- Bob Bridges, [email protected], cell 336 382-7313 /* Talking to liberals is much more fun now that we have Lexis-Nexis. -Ann Coulter, 2005-05-11 */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of billogden Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2023 10:46 Perhaps it is only my experience, but (again, long ago) I found that if the COBOL programmers were also experienced in the application area (such as payroll, billing, inventory, etc) they were much more likely to use meaningful variable names, minor but meaningful paragraph comments, etc. I realize this mixture of programming and actual application expertise is becoming less common, unfortunately. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
