In <4c45ba35.8000...@phoenixsoftware.com>, on 07/20/2010 at 08:01 AM, Edward Jaffe <edja...@phoenixsoftware.com> said:
>I've seen other "old" programs with many hard-coded offsets and >lengths and always wondered why this was such common practice back >then. >Was it because there were a lot of inexperienced assembler >programmers writing code? Was it because people thought the platform >would not last and treated every program as a "throw away"? Was it >due to limitations in the assembler itself? It was a combination of inexperienced programmers, poor training, tunnel vision and a philosophy of "Après moi, le déluge." -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html