That sort of thing comes from cargo cult management. Be careful what metrics you apply, because people will attempt to optimize their evaluations at the expense of things that are important to the organization.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <0000042bfe9c879d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2025 6:06 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: The mainfeame is alive External Message: Use Caution On Sun, 12 Jan 2025 21:32:20 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: > >However, the putting the source code nnto the object code as comments in the >PL/S output does serve a purpose. Or are you referrin to /* ... */ comment in >the PL/S source code? > The latter. My memory exaggerates, bit some felt as bad as: X = 0; /* Initialize X. */ Others were just an empty /* */. The mechanical enforcement was weak. >________________________________________ >From: Paul Gilmartin >Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2025 3:31 PM >To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > >I surmised it was a coding standard, perhaps enforced mechanically. >And those comments likewise, might as well have been generated >mechanically. > >I could write a macro to do that. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
