At one of my jobs we were a COBOL shop. We had a warehouse file that
had 13 sets of variables for our 13+ warehouses. And all of the
programs had 13 sets of calculations, because the head of IT (whose
title should have been "Son-In-Law to the President) didn't
understand how arrays worked. I did, and had re-coded a nasty
program using arrays. One of the other programmers mentioned that
the Head didn't like arrays, but I ignored the warning. Nothing
happened, and the program ran a lot better!
I'd never been told officially, so I just followed the rule that "If
it's not forbidden it's permitted."
--Paul E Musselman
PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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At 3:07 PM +0000 1/26/15, Alan Cassidy wrote (in part):
The bad part was he did not allow any of his hires or contractors to
code stuff he didn't understand.
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