> On 18 Mar 2024, at 22:33, Dave Beagle > <00000525eaef6620-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > 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) >
And a doctorate in bullshit > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
