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From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@baesystems.com>
Subject: Re: 7E7 Flight Controls Electronics
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 08:09:52 +0100
Date: 2004-06-09T08:09:52+01:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40c6b68b$1_1@baen1673807.greenlnk.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: x1yxc.7635$uX2.6317@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net

"Richard Riehle" <adaworks@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:x1yxc.7635$uX2.6317@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net...
> The fact that Jackson "was quite happy with COBOL" is simply an indication
> of the widespread stupidity regarding the shortcomings of the earlier
forms
> of the language.   No intelligent contemporary programmer would want to
> return to hideous mess of tangled code so typical of pre-ANSI-85.

There was also the point that there were JSP tools that automated the
generation of all the control structures. Once the data structures were
drawn, all the 'programmer' was left to do was fill in the sequential
statements, the branch conditions and the loop termination conditions
and BINGO an executable appeared.

-- Martin






  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-09  7:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 82+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-29  1:51 7E7 Flight Controls Electronics Jeffrey Carter
2004-05-29 10:21 ` Per Dalgas Jakobsen
2004-05-29 12:58   ` Marin David Condic
2004-05-29 13:35     ` Ed Falis
2004-05-29 17:29       ` Marin David Condic
2004-05-29 17:40         ` Ed Falis
2004-05-29 18:44           ` Marin David Condic
2004-05-29 18:58             ` Ed Falis
2004-05-30  7:55             ` Pascal Obry
2004-05-30 11:43               ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-05-30 16:10                 ` Pascal Obry
2004-05-31 11:56               ` Marin David Condic
2004-05-29 17:48         ` Wes Groleau
2004-05-29 18:53           ` Marin David Condic
     [not found]             ` <n42jb05e8rk7bsrtf2ikesu9t0bsmbphji@4ax.com>
2004-05-31 12:04               ` Marin David Condic
2004-06-06 10:35               ` I R T
2004-05-30  7:50         ` Pascal Obry
2004-05-31 12:25           ` Marin David Condic
2004-06-02 16:45           ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2004-06-02 17:48             ` Martin Dowie
2004-06-03 15:57               ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2004-06-03  0:09             ` Marin David Condic
2004-06-03  1:08               ` Ed Falis
2004-06-03 12:06                 ` Marin David Condic
2004-06-03 12:33                   ` Ed Falis
2004-06-03 16:44                   ` Wes Groleau
2004-06-03 17:52                   ` tmoran
2004-06-04  1:13                   ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-06-04 11:27                     ` Marin David Condic
2004-06-04 18:38                       ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-06-06 21:37                     ` Leon Winslow
2004-06-07 11:08                       ` I R T
2004-06-08  2:22                         ` Richard  Riehle
2004-06-08  9:07                           ` I R T
2004-06-08 11:33                           ` Marin David Condic
2004-06-09 21:02                           ` Robert I. Eachus
2004-06-09 21:22                             ` Ed Falis
2004-06-09 23:30                               ` Richard  Riehle
2004-06-10  2:02                               ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-06-10  2:27                                 ` Ed Falis
2004-06-10 19:54                                   ` Jeffrey Carter
     [not found]                             ` <28rfc01rhesdk2qt27krrr65nnk0n0kihc@4ax.com>
2004-06-12  3:01                               ` non sequitur Robert I. Eachus
2004-06-11 16:51                           ` 7E7 Flight Controls Electronics (COBOL Popularity) Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2004-06-11 17:18                             ` Marin David Condic
2004-06-11 18:49                             ` Richard  Riehle
2004-06-11 19:07                               ` Marin David Condic
2004-06-11 20:39                               ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2004-06-12 11:16                                 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-06-11 21:05                             ` Frank J. Lhota
2004-06-14 12:46                               ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2004-06-07 11:19                       ` 7E7 Flight Controls Electronics Marin David Condic
2004-06-07 22:24                         ` Alexander E. Kopilovich
2004-06-08  1:11                           ` Marin David Condic
2004-06-08  2:35                           ` Richard  Riehle
2004-06-08  6:59                             ` tmoran
2004-06-08 19:44                               ` Wes Groleau
2004-06-09  1:32                             ` Alexander E. Kopilovich
2004-06-09  6:23                               ` Richard  Riehle
2004-06-09  7:09                                 ` Martin Dowie [this message]
2004-06-10  1:41                                 ` Alexander E. Kopilovich
2004-06-10  6:13                                   ` Richard  Riehle
2004-06-11  2:03                                     ` Alexander E. Kopilovich
2004-06-12  2:31                                     ` Robert I. Eachus
2004-06-15 16:07                                       ` Richard  Riehle
2004-06-09  7:54                               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-06-09  6:31                         ` Robert I. Eachus
2004-06-09  9:43                           ` I R T
2004-06-09 15:28                           ` Jerry Petrey
2004-05-29 15:58     ` Preben Randhol
2004-05-29 17:45       ` Marin David Condic
2004-05-29 17:51         ` Ed Falis
2004-05-29 19:55       ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-05-30  7:57       ` Pascal Obry
2004-05-30 18:35         ` Richard  Riehle
2004-05-31 12:38           ` Marin David Condic
2004-06-04 12:56           ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2004-06-05  8:49             ` Pascal Obry
2004-06-06 10:27 ` I R T
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-05-30 10:34 Rod Chapman
2004-06-03  8:18 ` Vernon Brown
2004-06-03 10:45   ` Martin Krischik
2004-06-03 15:52   ` Richard  Riehle
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