*Try putting together the necessary code to drill down a hierarchical database like IMS.*
*Do until RC = 'GB'* *GET NEXT* *End* On Sun, Aug 22, 2021 at 12:32 PM Tom Conley <pinnc...@rochester.rr.com> wrote: > On 8/21/2021 9:31 PM, Bob Bridges wrote: > > This part of the thread got me thinking. How often do you write a > program that works right the first time, with no compile or execution > errors? I'm not talking about two-liners, of course, or even ten-liners; > let's say 30 or thereabouts. Please specify the language, too, since it > seems to me they vary in error-prone-ness. > > > > I've done it occasionally, but by "occasionally" I mean "less than one > time in twenty"; maybe much less, I'm not sure, and only once in my life > when anyone was watching. That was in PL/C; mostly nowadays I write in > REXX and VBA. > > > > In fact my REXXes typically start out with at least ten or fifteen lines > of boilerplate, and any VBA/Excel program likely relies on a raft of common > functions and/or objects that are part of my regular library, so when I say > "30 lines", some of those lines don't really count. > > > > --- > > Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 > > > > /* The schools of ancient morality had four cardinal virtues: justice in > human relations, prudence in the directions of affairs, fortitude in > bearing trouble or sorrow, temperance or self-restraint. But they knew > nothing of mercy or forgiveness, which is not natural to the human heart. > Forgiveness is an exotic, which Christ brought with Him from Heaven. > -F.B.Meyer */ > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On > Behalf Of Tom Brennan > > Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2021 13:41 > > > > ....one of my other supervisors/teachers would tell me about her > application experience. She said no matter how complex her COBOL programs > were, they would not only compile first time but would run perfectly. This > of course was due to her rigorous desk-checking which I assume took days. > > > > I remember thinking "that's crazy" but I just kept quiet. I'll give her > a break because that could have been at the time of card punching where > such desk-checking made far more sense. > > > > I once wrote an IDMS database exit in assembler that ran correctly the > first time, and never required modification in the years that followed. > It is indeed the rarest of birds. Never before nor since have I had > the pleasure of seeing a program run perfectly the first time and never > require modification. > > Regards, > Tom Conley > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Wayne V. Bickerdike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
