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From: "Stephen Fuld" <SFuld@alumni.cmu.edu.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: ALTER, ASSIGN and labels-as-values (was: Unicode in strings)
Date: Tue, 28 May 2024 18:28:10 -0000 (UTC)
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Thomas Koenig wrote:

> Stephen Fuld <SFuld@alumni.cmu.edu.invalid> schrieb:
> > Scott Lurndal wrote:
> > 
> >> "Stephen Fuld" <SFuld@alumni.cmu.edu.invalid> writes:
> >> > John Levine wrote:
> >> > 
> >> >> According to Stephen Fuld <SFuld@alumni.cmu.edu.invalid>:
> >> >> > As I said before, you could easily scan the source code and
> find >> all >> > the ALTER statements ...
> >> >> 
> >> >> Hm, I'm guessing you've never dropped a box containing 2000
> source >> >> cards.
> >> > 
> >> > 
> >> > I have (remember using a marker to put a diagonal line across the
> >> > top of the deck to make it easier to spot an out of order card?
> >> > :-(.  But that isn't the point.  When I said scan, I was
> referring >> > to the paper listings that, in the day, were easily
> available.  >> 
> >> We always used the sequence number field with COBOL, so the
> >> deck could be sorted using a card sorter if dropped.
> > 
> > Good point.  I had forgotten about that.
> 
> The ISPF editor used to add these automagically, without them being
> visible, for FB80 files.
> 
> Worked great the first time I tried to run LaTeX, which was on a
> mainframe... I could not make heads or tails of the error messages.


See what problems you get when you use that newfangled technology!
:-)

*Real* programmers used actual punched cards!  :-)




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 - Stephen Fuld 
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