On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 2:15 PM, zMan <zedgarhoo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hiring competent people. That's so 20th-century. Get with the program, man! > > Amusingly, from some of what I've read, one of the reasons for the COBOL language was so that "lower trained" enlisted men (& women) could produce quality code just using the English language ( versus Fortran et al). We are _still_ coming up with languages for "the average person" (inexperienced & inexpensive) to be able to write quality code which "just works". Too bad the hardware people haven't come up with the DWIM opcode yet. -- UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
