Tony Thigpen wrote: >Many years ago, a programmer where I worked was told to write a program
>in Cobol instead of RPG (which he preferred). So he did, but all the >variables were in Spanish. Management was not impressed. When my dad was teaching in South America (which he'd do for a few months at a time when I was a kid-he's gone now, and it only now occurs to me to wonder how that worked, since he was a full professor at a university; perhaps leave, perhaps sabbatical??), he came across a PL/I compiler that had been translated into Spanish-that is, the language keywords were Spanish! He was sort of impressed at the effort, but could also see the inherent problems it represented with support etc. Another friend had a colleague who allegedly wrote a program using variables whose names were all zeroes and ohs and ones and ells [spelling these out for readability]. He eventually trashed it because HE couldn't debug it! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
