The customer says, “Build me a house”. So we build them a house.
Then after it is finished, they say, “that I can drive to the lake”. From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Steve Thompson <ste...@wkyr.net> Date: Tuesday, March 28, 2023 at 5:50 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> Subject: Re: Stop the ragging on COBOL please [was: RE: ASM call by value] I just wasn't that devious, but yeah, happens in real shops more than one cares to admit. Steve Thompson On 3/28/2023 6:20 PM, Charles Mills wrote: > Ha! I always said if I ever taught programming -- I never have -- I was going > to do that -- swap code between students. > > The other thing I was going to do in the same vein was give a programming > assignment -- perhaps with a fairly tight deadline -- and halfway through say > "oh, wait, the specs have changed" and hand them a somewhat different variant > of the problem. (I thought that modeled real life programming!) > > Charles > > On Tue, 28 Mar 2023 17:17:05 -0400, Steve Thompson <ste...@wkyr.net> wrote: > >> In an effort to keep people from writing difficult to impossible >> to maintain code, while I was teaching COBOL, I warned the >> students that I would be picking a programming lesson, where once >> it was completed, everyone would have to swap card decks and then >> have to add the next lesson's function to it. They would be > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
