It is with great sadness Linda Bickerdike and the Bickerdike family wish to
inform you of the unexpected but peaceful passing of Wayne Bickerdike on
Monday 6th of January 2025.
A memorial service will be held at 2 PM AEDT (GMT+11) Tuesday 21st of
January at Christ Church Geelong, Cnr Moorabool & M
I know of sites actively running it (INFOMAN) and of companies developing for
it and then there is this:
https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/topic/0TO0z006v2NGAQ/tivoli-information-management-for-zos?language=en_US&productId=01t0z07g6zIAAQ
Followed by this:
https://log-on.com/2023/10/16/log
You don't usually see a comment on every line. In a well constructed program
you only see comments where they add values, e.g., readability,
maintainability, change tracking.
On the flip side, it is legitimate to write pages of comments for a single
instruction if that makes the code more reada
Was "irewalls" a typo? I like it either way! We should rename them that in many
cases.
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My condolences.
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Especially when the single instruction is Update Tree :-)
Roops
On Sun, 12 Jan 2025, 14:56 Seymour J Metz, wrote:
> You don't usually see a comment on every line. In a well constructed
> program you only see comments where they add values, e.g., readability,
> maintainability, change tracking.
Paul Gilmartin wrote, in part:
> X = 0;/* Initialize X. */
Tsk. And that comment, if it were real, would be wrong!
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I am looking for the load address for 3 modules
I code the CSVINFO pass as a parameter the module I'm looking for it returns
the information since there are two more modules I am looking for I call the
CSVINFO calling the MIPR hoping it will get the next loaded module
However it (MIPR exit)
If you say so. Looked like Rexx to me!
(And yes, I was being pedantic--but I'd never have put a period on it anyway,
as it adds nothing and wastes possibly valuable real estate.)
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On Sun, 12 Jan 2025 14:56:57 +, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>You don't usually see a comment on every line. In a well constructed program
>you only see comments where they add values, e.g., readability,
>maintainability, change tracking.
>
I saw a PL/S listing on fiche. Every source line bore a c
When I was drafted into teaching a programming class I warned my student that I
would take points off for pointless comments.
However, the putting the source code into the object code as comments in the
PL/S output does serve a purpose. Or are you referrin to /* ... */ comment in
the PL/S sourc
Useles, yes, but why wrong?
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That's important, but so are things like entry conditions. permissible values,
restrictions.
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Because it doesn’t initialize X. -- it initializes X
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Useles, yes, but why wrong?
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Or its brother Compare and Form Codeword :-(
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That's PL/S, so the period is just punctuation. Stem variales are in Rexx.
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On Sun, 12 Jan 2025 21:32:20 +, 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 b
Very sorry to hear this. My condolences.
Steve Thompson
On 1/12/2025 4:13 AM, Peter Vels wrote:
It is with great sadness Linda Bickerdike and the Bickerdike family wish to
inform you of the unexpected but peaceful passing of Wayne Bickerdike on
Monday 6th of January 2025.
A memorial service wi
As I see it the important comments are those that explain WHY it is coded
as it is.
The only times I really wanted comments when there were none is when I
wanted to know the reason for the coding at all or why it was coded in just
that way.
(E g when I was putting in changes in programs I didn't cr
"Cargo-cult management", I like that!
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AND WELL
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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.
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