On 4/30/2013 10:27 AM, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote:
Seriously, I think you denigrate application programmers with remarks like that. We are not dumb coding robots with no experiences outside of our COBOL shell.
There are programmers who write CoBOL, and there are CoBOL programmers. It's the latter we remember due to their uncanny ability to get into trouble; it's human nature to rubber-neck at traffic accidents, too.
When I was a systems programmer at ADR, customer support had an intractable problem - a user production job kept running out of memory regardless of the region provided; the same job had run correctly during testing in the default region. It was a simple CoBOL file processing program with an E15 and E35 exit routine. When it was put into production, it was added under the, to them, obvious name of SORT.
Nearly ten years later, at AMS, there was this user who kept running out of space.....
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