RE: Auditor's questions Was: Active subsystems

Well done. I've always followed the rule that if you don't bet your job
every day, you're not doing your job.

Paul Nelson
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Office 409-267-4027
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Subject: Re: Auditor's questions Was: Active subsystems

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.