Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Bob Eager Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: COBOL and tricks Date: 28 Oct 2022 08:03:15 GMT Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <87zghai2dh.fsf@usenet.ankman.de> <16ydncnktcv0sE__nZ2dnUU7-Q3NnZ2d@earthlink.com> <1034215367.679945065.348792.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <2074045549.679949818.212355.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <2aadnYfne4Fc9Er_nZ2dnUU7-WnNnZ2d@earthlink.com> <1993356671.680307216.022066.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <574555364.680474584.174865.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 3bECospeHHXW3U7dPJi5Qwmcqe2piYDJ4n41/wo1gU3fWT7srI Cancel-Lock: sha1:SoqWK2Ck5ly+CyyIBAacPiXYeFY= User-Agent: Pan/0.145 (Duplicitous mercenary valetism; d7e168a git.gnome.org/pan2) Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:222188 comp.os.linux.misc:35785 On Fri, 28 Oct 2022 02:20:00 -0500, Charles Richmond wrote: > On 7/25/2022 5:52 PM, Charlie Gibbs wrote: >> >> A sufficiently determined programmer can write unreadable code in any >> language. Convoluted code with no comments is even worse. >> Convoluted code with outdated, incorrect comments is worse still. >> >> > At a PPoE, we received FORTRAN code under a tech-sharing agreement with > a competitor. A comment atop a convoluted subroutine read: > > C > C IT TOOK ME A LONG TIME TO UNDERSTAND HOW THIS c ROUTINE > WORKS, AND IT WILL TAKE YOU A LONG TIME C ALSO, CAUSE I AM NOT > GOING TO TELL YOU HOW IT C WORKS. > C > > a very helpful comment indeed! In this context, it is obligatory to link this: https://gist.github.com/FedericoPonzi/f026ff5c210e738ee03d271c8fc0f29b -- Using UNIX since v6 (1975)... Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org