That’s awesome. Did maintenance programmers really exist back then? > On 13 Jul 2022, at 8:13 am, Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> wrote: > > Sorry 'bout the link. How about > > https://bit.ly/3z2y5XO > > Charles > > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Charles Mills > Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 4:50 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: NOTSP The Latin of Software Code Is Thriving - The New York > TimesThat' > > Or as I said in 1974 > > https://books.google.com/books?id=XrgyMRVh128C&lpg=PA16&ots=Zc1NP23_DN&dq=co > mputerworld%20cobol%20charles%20mills&pg=PA16 > > <g> > > Charles > > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Seymour J Metz > Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 5:55 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: NOTSP The Latin of Software Code Is Thriving - The New York > TimesThat' > > That's a lesson that they learned on Multics way back one; worry about the > design first. During an I/O redesign, they wrote PL/I code to replace code > originally written in ALM (assembler), and the PL/I version was faster. Not > because of the compiler, but because of the improved design. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
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