Ah, a proto-manager! Too bad that there are quite a few COBAL (deliberate)
programmers and so few COBOL. Or, like many, still stuck using the very old
coding techniques. I am _finally_ seeing some COBOL which does in-line
PERFORM statements. I see very little, other than that and IF, that use the
END-verb constructs. Yes, it is a bit wordy. But I think it enhances
comprehension. Just like in my C and Javascript code, I enclose statements
in { } even when not absolutely necessary.
You can do:
for (int i=0;i<n;i++) call function(i);
but I always code:
for (int i=o,i<n;i++) {
call function(i);
}
I even code
IF condition THEN
STATEMENT
END-IF
and I usually only put a single period in a paragraph, as the last line in
the paragraph. Everything else is delimited with END-verb. I never use NEXT
SENTENCE any more. <shudder/>
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Gerhard Postpischil <[email protected]>wrote:
> On 4/30/2013 10:27 AM, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote:
>
>> Seriously, I think you denigrate application programmers with remarks
>> like that. We are not dumb coding robots with no experiences outside
>> of our COBOL shell.
>>
>
> There are programmers who write CoBOL, and there are CoBOL programmers.
> It's the latter we remember due to their uncanny ability to get into
> trouble; it's human nature to rubber-neck at traffic accidents, too.
>
> When I was a systems programmer at ADR, customer support had an
> intractable problem - a user production job kept running out of memory
> regardless of the region provided; the same job had run correctly during
> testing in the default region. It was a simple CoBOL file processing
> program with an E15 and E35 exit routine. When it was put into production,
> it was added under the, to them, obvious name of SORT.
>
> Nearly ten years later, at AMS, there was this user who kept running out
> of space.....
>
> Gerhard Postpischil
> Bradford, Vermont
>
>
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