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| From | docdwarf@panix.com () |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.cobol |
| Subject | Re: Need an example CALL USING RETURNING |
| Date | 2024-04-06 13:04 +0000 |
| Organization | Public Access Networks Corp. |
| Message-ID | <uurh91$smv$1@reader1.panix.com> (permalink) |
| References | <uuq9i9$1n5b8$1@dont-email.me> <uurf6i$22csg$1@dont-email.me> |
In article <uurf6i$22csg$1@dont-email.me>,
Bruce Axtens <snetxa@hotmail.com> wrote:
[snip]
>What???s the usual deal out there
>in the ???real world???? Do people write standalones or do they learn early
>how to write callables? What should we be teaching?
You should be teaching what the language is capable of using. I'm not
sure where this 'real world' is but im my experience every shop has its
standards - or waves of standards, and just like each wave leaves its own
bit of jetsam on the shore each wave of New Standard leaves... stuff in
the code - and it's up to a Senior Programmer to tell the New Guy 'sure,
it can be done that way... but the Way We Do It Here is...'
I've sorked in shops where the SEARCH verb was forbidden, spit out by
pre-compiling tools, because 'people get confused by it' (or Chief Senior
Programmer didn't understand it). Same with SORT. Same with INSPECT
REPLACING because 'you Never Know when the subroutine will be wanted in
the Online region and that's a Bad Thing.'
It's frustrating but... their shop, their rules. Find where they keep
their skels ('templates'), read the code and learn their songs.'
DD
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Need an example CALL USING RETURNING Bruce Axtens <snetxa@hotmail.com> - 2024-04-06 09:46 +0800
Re: Need an example CALL USING RETURNING Arnold Trembley <arnold.trembley@att.net> - 2024-04-06 04:38 -0500
Re: Need an example CALL USING RETURNING R Daneel Olivaw <Danny@hyperspace.vogon.gov> - 2024-04-06 13:47 +0200
Re: Need an example CALL USING RETURNING Bruce Axtens <snetxa@hotmail.com> - 2024-04-06 20:29 +0800
Re: Need an example CALL USING RETURNING docdwarf@panix.com () - 2024-04-06 13:04 +0000
Re: Need an example CALL USING RETURNING Bruce Axtens <snetxa@hotmail.com> - 2024-04-06 21:11 +0800
Re: Need an example CALL USING RETURNING docdwarf@panix.com () - 2024-04-06 17:04 +0000
Re: Need an example CALL USING RETURNING R Daneel Olivaw <Danny@hyperspace.vogon.gov> - 2024-04-06 22:06 +0200
Re: Need an example CALL USING RETURNING docdwarf@panix.com () - 2024-04-07 01:42 +0000
Re: Need an example CALL USING RETURNING "Vincent Coen" <VBCoen@gmail.com> - 2024-04-06 23:27 +0100
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