> On Oct 20, 2017, at 1:24 PM, Jesse 1 Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > > I can relate to this article even though I'm an ancient fart. O-O never made > much sense to me, but confess that I never really dug into it either. When I > got into this biz in the late 70s, the hot thing was Structured Programming. > How many remember that SPF (before it was Interactive) originally meant > Structured Programming Facility? > > As an application newbie I took a class in SP that I believe has informed my > work ever since. You don't need O-O to avoid spaghetti code. You just need > coding discipline that SP provides in a very sensible way. Structured > programming eventually lost its cachet but not its intrinsic value. > > > . > .
Skip: I think you dropped an acronym in your time line. My memory says that somewhere near the beginning there was a “System Programmer Facility” My brain is starting to loose tidbits here, But I could *SWEAR* that I saw the original White Sheet (actually I think it was 4 pages folded) that the blue lettering said System Programmer Facility. Can someone verify or correct by aging memory, please? Ed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
