> On Jun 28, 2017, at 6:11 PM, Paul Gilmartin > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, 28 Jun 2017 16:24:16 -0500, Edward Gould wrote: >> >> We had a fool proof naming standard at one installation. It has been working >> for 25+ years and not even one word is/was ever said against the standard. I >> wrote it and it rock solid. >> > What names did it govern? > > Why? > > How resourceful were your fools? > > I'm incredulous. Expose any convention to two or more programmers > and all but one of them will find fault with it.
Gil, Yes we had wise guys who tried to get around the restrictions. Part of my daily duties was to scan syslog. Its amazing what you can find when you look. I was giving operations a hard time because a jobclass that did not allow tape mounts. They said they were too busy (I also observed them while I was in the computer room and this was NOT the case). To get around operations laziness in this area. I wrote an exit that looked at jobclass and issued a message to the job and a operator cancel. I also had the ear of the VP in charge of programmers. I would go out to have a drink with him and he listened to what I had to say. His favorite report that I ran was “The Pigs of the Week” report. It showed all sorts violations like CPU time, # of tape mounts, etc etc. He loved the report and the programmers never wanted to be on the report as it put a ding in their raises if they continually showed up in the report. How I got the ear was interesting. We were both working at a bank and we would bet money (never more that $5) on something. I would tend to win those bets. Then he got into politics and ran for some office (its been 30+ years) so I don’t remember the details. He thought he was going to win and I bet that he wouldn’t. I won the bet so he seemed to get the idea that I was pretty good at what I was doing. This was 10-15 years before he became a VP at a different company. We never kept in contact so I was surprised to see his name. I called him to see if it was the same person and it was. Ed > > -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
