From: "Michael F. Yoder" <yoder@decada.zko.dec.com>
Subject: Re: Partners Wanted
Date: 1999/07/14
Date: 1999-07-14T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <378C7858.F43CE2B@decada.zko.dec.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 378B995C.700FD0A@bridge.bst.bls.com
Steve Horne wrote:
> The first program I ever had to maintain was chock full of "ALTER GOTO"
> statements.
>
> Has anyone ever been exposed to that language atrocity? Simple and
> understandable? Absolutely not.
>
> -Steve
A friend of mine was a COBOL programmer who worked for a time at
Polaroid, and (of course) read their programming standard for COBOL. He
told me that the section on the ALTER verb read, in its entirety:
"Use of the ALTER verb is punishable by death."
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Michael Yoder
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1999-07-08 0:00 Partners Wanted Bahram Mirkalami
1999-07-09 0:00 ` Kim N�rby Andersen
1999-07-09 0:00 ` P.S. Norby
1999-07-09 0:00 ` Roedy Green
1999-07-12 0:00 ` Sunil Rao
1999-07-12 0:00 ` Jim
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Edward Hill
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Sunil Rao
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Sunil Rao
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Edward Hill
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Scott McMahan
1999-07-13 0:00 ` P.S. Norby
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Warner Bruns
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Andrew Koenig
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Richard Heathfield
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Dale King
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Andrew Koenig
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Richard Heathfield
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Dale King
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Roedy Green
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Andrew Koenig
1999-07-13 0:00 ` LR
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Andrew Koenig
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Steve Horne
1999-07-14 0:00 ` Michael F. Yoder [this message]
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Lawrence Kirby
[not found] ` <01beca1a$86d1a800$0e01a8c0@eton.powernet.co.uk>
1999-07-09 0:00 ` P.S. Norby
1999-07-09 0:00 ` firewind
1999-07-10 0:00 ` John Duncan
1999-07-10 0:00 ` Kenny A. Chaffin
1999-07-09 0:00 ` Mark
1999-07-12 0:00 ` Bahram Mirkalami
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