EOF marker card was filled with 80 nines, since it was an 80 column
card. The code was being written when the date 9/9/99 was so far off
that everyone thought the program would be replaced by a more modern
technology before it bacame a problem. Using a 9's card to signify EOF
was standard procedure for the industry. I learned it from my classes
at IBM. So I guess according to your perfect 20-20 hindsite, Big Blue
should be forced into bankrupcy for teaching such a poor technique.
Alexander Dietrich writ:
>
> Hi,
>
> >When you read a record with FORTRAN, the read statement tells what the
> >numbers mean by the position of the numbers. I doubt that any of that
>
> As I said, a date like "9999" wouldn't make any sense then,
> unless you live in a world with only single digit months/days !
> Of course this error could still happen, but there would have
> to be an incredibly stupid programmer to use a simple number
> as an EOF marker and the code would have a glaring bug to
> store a date in this buggy format.
>
> Alexander Dietrich
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