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Whatever became of efficiency.
Years ago Bell Labs Management required all application programming be
done in BAL.
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Even BAL programmers can produce lousy code; it's just sometimes harder
to spot. :-)
Character string manipulations, like scanning control statements, can be
inordinately complex in BAL if you're not really careful in the design
phase.
"Design an input editor to reject bad input and some ingenious idiot
will find a way to get bad input past it." :-)
Rick
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