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Re: [OFF TOPIC] Required reading for programmers

• Posted by Gerardo <gebrandariz at YAHOO.COM> Apr 24, 2001
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Ted,

Thank you! Nice to know that someone's taken the time to put into writing
what we've known for all these years. I only missed one thing, namely the
insertion of phony condition testing, as in

if a = a then ...

Or, better yet, conditionals that enclose assuredly non-executable code, as
in 'if a > a ...', followed by a few dozen lines of seemingly vital code. Of
course, you'd never use 'a' in both cases, but equivalent variables with
different names, preferably meaningful and unrelated.

And what better language to do all this than good old COBOL, which actually
prompts you to write something that looks like English. What might a young
programmer's attitude be, the poor kid, weaned on C, Java and perhaps Visual
Basic, before the presence of a sentence reading

PERFORM ONSTAGE THROUGH INSISTENCE,
   VARYING TECHNIQUE FROM HAPHAZARD TO IMPOSSIBLE,
      UNTIL FIRED.

Gerardo

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From: "Ted Fines" <fines at macalester.edu>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 10:52 AM
Subject: [OFF TOPIC] Required reading for programmers


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