I won't go into my programmers were so dumb that...
We had smart ones too but none of them could do assembler.
We had another rule that the only language that could be used in
production was COBOL.
Since none of them knew assembler getting called at 0 something in
the morning to debug assembler wasn't an option.
Ed
On Aug 1, 2013, at 8:34 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
In <a886260d-5074-45c1-8d41-c50f481fe...@comcast.net>, on 07/31/2013
at 10:38 PM, Ed Gould <edgould1...@comcast.net> said:
Programmers HATE altered GOTO's
Unless they're ALTER kockers (-;
It might be smart programming
FSVO smart.
but the debugging can (and is) a PITA.
When the debugging is a PITA then it's time to question how smart the
programming was.
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