That's why you have coding and variable-naming standards.
Seriously - 10,000 lines? I regularly work on programs with at least ten times that. Not including the copybooks. Use a sensible variable naming convention, plenty of level-88s and redefines and you're sorted. And like any other language - *comment the code*. There's really no excuse given that, without too much difficulty, it's quite easy to write virtually self-documenting code anyway.
And the biggest aid to working on it? A decent damn text editor. I can never understand why so many COBOL developers hobble themselves with what are essentially line editors, when the facilities exist to bring the code across from the development platform, edit it with something like gvim (which has COBOL syntax highlighting) and actually have a clue what they're doing.
Yes, I'm 33 and I'm a COBOL developer. No, I've no idea how that happened either...
For what it's worth, the odd variant of unix that ran on Honeywell Bull servers actually had an 'ethernet on fire' error (along with a 'crazy bus error').
I know people living in Aberdeenshire who can't get anything other than dial-up. BT will *charge* them for ADSL, of course, they just can't provide it. My Father's next door neighbour has a house he rents out - when he first started letting it, he had ADSL installed. BT engineer turned up, put the modem in and went away, without checking that it actually worked. 2 years later, he discovers that it's never worked (the exchange can't cope and there's no plans to upgrade it), BT have been charging him for all that time and they're refusing to refund him.
If the record companies still own the CDs and have been sending them out unsolicited, then I recommend that everyone they've sent them to starts billing them for storage charges.
Let's see if they decide that they still own them then.
"the identical chip is used in oodles of other hardware (including early UltraSparc workstations) and it works fine there"
You're kidding, right?
Google for 'sparc ide dma problem' and see how many hits you get. Those things were atrocious (ask any ultra 5 or 10 owner). That's not an excuse for Apple as such, but they certainly weren't the only company that got bitten.
Sarge is looking like being the last release to support sparc32 in any form (although sun4c and d are no longer supported, mainly due to the whole integer multiply/divide stuff).
I'm currently running unstable on a sparc classic with no problems. Haven't tried the 2.6 kernel recently, but 2.4 is stable as a rock.
Argh. Do we have to? I'd tried to purge that from my memory. Then again, Occam was only ever used on Unisys transputers and how many of them are still around?
Anyone ever use comal? We were taught it at school. It was like a cross between pascal and basic. Strange stuff.
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Woah.
Did you just use a computer analogy for a car problem? Is this Soviet Russia already?
Followed by somewhere in the code:
Seen it done and seen the results far too many times...
"There is no professional-grade COBOL available for Linux so that they must convert to another language"
I think Microfocus might disagree with you there. It's not cheap, but it's definitely used at enterprise level.
Could be a while before anybody says 'yes'...
That's why you have coding and variable-naming standards.
Seriously - 10,000 lines? I regularly work on programs with at least ten times that. Not including the copybooks. Use a sensible variable naming convention, plenty of level-88s and redefines and you're sorted. And like any other language - *comment the code*. There's really no excuse given that, without too much difficulty, it's quite easy to write virtually self-documenting code anyway.
And the biggest aid to working on it? A decent damn text editor. I can never understand why so many COBOL developers hobble themselves with what are essentially line editors, when the facilities exist to bring the code across from the development platform, edit it with something like gvim (which has COBOL syntax highlighting) and actually have a clue what they're doing.
Yes, I'm 33 and I'm a COBOL developer. No, I've no idea how that happened either...
For what it's worth, the odd variant of unix that ran on Honeywell Bull servers actually had an 'ethernet on fire' error (along with a 'crazy bus error').
Never did figure out what either of them meant.
You're one of the lucky ones.
I know people living in Aberdeenshire who can't get anything other than dial-up. BT will *charge* them for ADSL, of course, they just can't provide it. My Father's next door neighbour has a house he rents out - when he first started letting it, he had ADSL installed. BT engineer turned up, put the modem in and went away, without checking that it actually worked. 2 years later, he discovers that it's never worked (the exchange can't cope and there's no plans to upgrade it), BT have been charging him for all that time and they're refusing to refund him.
If the record companies still own the CDs and have been sending them out unsolicited, then I recommend that everyone they've sent them to starts billing them for storage charges.
Let's see if they decide that they still own them then.
It's because they're ignorant, arrogant smelly misogynists with no sense of humour
And so are the French.
A rim-shot, of course, is an entirely different matter and significantly harder to clean up.
"the identical chip is used in oodles of other hardware (including early UltraSparc workstations) and it works fine there"
You're kidding, right?
Google for 'sparc ide dma problem' and see how many hits you get. Those things were atrocious (ask any ultra 5 or 10 owner). That's not an excuse for Apple as such, but they certainly weren't the only company that got bitten.
If that's true, I'd suggest you aren't flushing properly.
Uh. Why would anyone want to watch videos of some nerd chick playing World Of Warcraft?
It appears that being a script kiddie or virus writer now constitutes working in a 'technology job'. Who'd have thought it?
"I'm using both write now myself"
Well, you certainly seem to be using the new macbook keyboard...
"Who honestly would spend $1400 just to have two video cards, and then only get at most 20% performance improvement."
Hi! Welcome to Slashdot - take it you've just discovered this place?
One small point - 'Britain' having no law of trespass is inaccurate - England and Wales do. It's only Scotland that doesn't.
Take the keyboard away from her. Should do the trick.
Yup they will and they are.
:)
How do I know? I wrote quite a few of them and they were tested on a SuSE 7.2 box not long before I left the company
Um. Wrong.
Sarge is looking like being the last release to support sparc32 in any form (although sun4c and d are no longer supported, mainly due to the whole integer multiply/divide stuff).
I'm currently running unstable on a sparc classic with no problems. Haven't tried the 2.6 kernel recently, but 2.4 is stable as a rock.
Well, they both vibrate...
Argh. Do we have to? I'd tried to purge that from my memory. Then again, Occam was only ever used on Unisys transputers and how many of them are still around?
Anyone ever use comal? We were taught it at school. It was like a cross between pascal and basic. Strange stuff.
Although, in all seriousness, these things have 5400rpm drives. Wonder if that'll get shifted across to the mini?
No. It only lasts 3 hours before all the lights go out and it burns your testicles in the process...
No, it comes up in colour.
It's a *really* clever firmware hack...