I bought a Virgin cellphone, thought it might be useful to get the more expensive one that has a camera. Apparently, I have to pay fifty cents to upload MY photo that I took with MY camera-phone to MY computer using MY wireless connection. Can't return it now, hoping the police will pay my uploading charges if I ever capture a bank robbery in progress.
No wonder there are so many problems, at least in business, if people think binary arithmetic is "best practice". It troubles me when I see code comments full of spelling errors. Sometimes that's witty, but usually it suggests ignorance or contempt for precision which is a rather essential attribute for programming. Rexx came out in the days when VM was a kind of counter-culture within IBM. You got the source code too. Didn't use Rexx much, but I was struck by the elaborate annotations and the literacy of the comments. There was nothing sloppy about it, in fact it made much of the other VM (and MVS) source code look pretty slapdash. (That was the first time I'd ever seen mixed-case comments - many of the assemblers then "folded" everything into upper case.) Presumably the new versions aren't written in BAL. I wish somebody would take the Rexx decimal support and put it into Java/ECMA-script.
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I bought a Virgin cellphone, thought it might be useful to get the more expensive one that has a camera. Apparently, I have to pay fifty cents to upload MY photo that I took with MY camera-phone to MY computer using MY wireless connection. Can't return it now, hoping the police will pay my uploading charges if I ever capture a bank robbery in progress.
No wonder there are so many problems, at least in business, if people think binary arithmetic is "best practice". It troubles me when I see code comments full of spelling errors. Sometimes that's witty, but usually it suggests ignorance or contempt for precision which is a rather essential attribute for programming. Rexx came out in the days when VM was a kind of counter-culture within IBM. You got the source code too. Didn't use Rexx much, but I was struck by the elaborate annotations and the literacy of the comments. There was nothing sloppy about it, in fact it made much of the other VM (and MVS) source code look pretty slapdash. (That was the first time I'd ever seen mixed-case comments - many of the assemblers then "folded" everything into upper case.) Presumably the new versions aren't written in BAL. I wish somebody would take the Rexx decimal support and put it into Java/ECMA-script.