In <027f01cb283c$5a3431f0$0e9c95...@net>, on 07/20/2010
at 01:49 PM, "William H. Blair" <wmhbl...@comcast.net> said:
>7. Already long-established, bad Assembler language coding
> Habits. Assembler F was light years ahead of anything
> else available at the time.
IBMAP. Even HLA doesn't have everything that it had.
9. IBM and IBM contractors had to find huge numbers of programmers
for OS/360. Many of them were extremely inexperienced, and they
set bad cultural norms that their successors followed.
>Note 1: I remember POK IBMers showing up at GUIDE and SHARE asking
>us to look at the source for some element involved in processing the
>START command. Nobody in POK could determine what, exactly, it did
>-- but they were afraid to touch it or take it out.
IEFZGST1 and IEFZGST2 anyone? They were Allocation rather than STC,
but I'll match them against any other horror show that anyone cares to
nominate.
--
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)
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