LOL, I was a programmer for almost half my 40+ year career. IMS/COBOL DB/DC at first. Later mostly COBOL CICS and COBOL DB2. So I’m excellent in COBOL. In college, I programmed in PL/I, fortran, watfiv, pascal, and some others. Logic is my forte. Math major helps. (Double major Comp Sci)
As for code reviews, I’ve worked at 15 companies of various sizes and none of them did code reviews. One company tried to implement, but it was a cluster and a huge waste of time. Imagine having a staff of 10, who not only have their own coding requirements and time constraints, but now have to hand hold the less qualified employees. If you have a staff of 10 and they are making $50/hour and up and each code review takes 10 hours, you have thousands of dollars tied up hand holding weaker staff with more talented staff. A bad use of money. A better method is mentoring, where a newer programmer is mentored by a senior person. That’s how I was taught (IMS DB/DC) at my first programming position after transferring from Operations at my first employer. My code never failed. Because it was well tested. Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Sunday, March 17, 2024, 11:56 PM, Bob Bridges <00000587168ababf-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: Boy, ain't THAT the truth!, he says sadly, thinking of an app he didn't write and is now responsible for maintaining. This thing passes multiple values between programs using (if I understand it correctly) a single character string consisting of many assignment statements, which are then parsed and evaluated upon returning to the calling program. Me, I probably would've used ISPF pool variables, but I'm not sure that would be easier to follow. So far I don't mess with it much; it works. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* Every year, on April 15, all members of Congress would be placed in individual prison cells with the necessary tax forms and a copy of the Tax Code. They would remain locked in the cells, without food or water, until they had completed their tax returns and successfully undergone a full IRS audit. Of course this system would probably result in a severe shortage of congresspersons. But there might also be some drawbacks. -Dave Barry's plan to simplify the tax code, 2000-04-09 */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2024 18:46 Expect the code to be modified by someone with significantly less knowledge of the problem domain, even if they are an expert in the language. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
