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On 02/03/10 10:21:13, Gordon Henderson wrote:
Is it me, or are we doomed to this lazy programmer approach? (Or is that "just the way is it" with this new fangled web2oreah)
We are doomed by poor coding and lazy programmers.My story is some contractor came in to help us with some Cobol on vt terminals. Rather than print the clear screen code he created a string 80 bytes long and printed that 24 times... hmmm...
The worst mistake I made...???I created a a script in dcl that opened up your cobol source looked at the first lines for the compile and link comands, we were forever forgetting what need to be compiled/linked with what. Also very useful when we changed a source library and wanted to recompile the whole application. One of the programmers got wind of this and used to make a change and then compile everything, several hours later he would make another change and do the same thing again. I don't think he did a day work the whole time he was there!
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