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| From | Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.folklore.computers |
| Subject | Re: iBM System/3 FORTRAN for engineering/science work? |
| Date | 2021-07-08 19:39 -0400 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <sc82bo$kl0$2@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | (8 earlier) <sbpar0$agl$1@dont-email.me> <316519623.647055349.997435.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <df50b799-13d0-4b7d-86b8-519a0c2f316bn@googlegroups.com> <sc61lv02sk5@news1.newsguy.com> <1027582483.647474386.185255.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> |
Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes: > Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote: >> On 2021-07-07, undefined Hancock-4 <hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote: >> >>> On Saturday, July 3, 2021 at 9:40:38 PM UTC-4, Peter Flass wrote: >>> >>>>> When a bug surfaced, it could take several hours to unravel the code, >>>>> resulting in the complaint by the non-computer-competent MD that the >>>>> person who left could fix any fault within a few minutes, but you >>>>> can't be much good of it takes you more than a day. >>>> >>>> The first thing I’d do if I had to pick up code like that would be to >>>> comment it, at least to mark the procedures, and indent it. >>> >>> Yes, that was typical procedure when faced with spaghetti. >>> Of course, if it was 6,000 lines of mush, it took a while and >>> wasn't easy, but all the more reason. >> >> Make that 4,000 lines of mush; once I started to make sense of >> what the code was doing, I'd typically throw out 30% of it. >> (In extreme cases, 50%.) >> >>> By the way, 'structured programming' was touted as the way to >>> eliminate the mess of too many crazy GO TOs. But structured >>> programming could be poorly written too, with all sorts of >>> excessive crazy calls to subroutines. Too many layers or >>> overlays is just as bad as GO TOs. >> >> This is something the zealots never realized. They seemed to take >> the number of subroutine calls as some sort of figure of merit. >> Since a subroutine call is just a GOTO paired with a "come from", >> a maze of calls to tiny (sometimes one-line!) subroutines is still >> spaghetti code; you're just running double strands. >> >> As I would point out, the undisciplined use of subroutine calls >> is nearly as bad as the undisciplined use of GOTOs. >> >> I heard of virtual memory systems thrashing themselves to death >> because of the complete lack of locality of code - especially if >> overlays were involved. >> >>> Back in the 1960s and 1970s there was a shortage of programmers. >>> Management, desperate to automate some function, made use of >>> unskilled or untalented people, leaving a mess for others to untangle. >>> Undecipherable field names was another problem. What does K3X mean? >>> K5X? K4Z? >> >> To be completely fair, it can be a bit hard when you're working with >> an assembler that only supports 4-character labels. In my first job >> I discovered that it was a bit of a standard to use labels like A100, >> A110, etc. (The convention was to keep the labels in sequence.) >> I quickly outgrew that - it was easy enough to come up with something >> a bit more mnemonic. The breaking point, though, was when I had to >> move a large block of code, which would have required renumbering >> all those labels. I decided enough was enough. >> >> Years later I came across COBOL programs (and textbooks) which >> advocated putting such prefixes in front of labels - a practice >> which I steadfastly avoided. >> > > Ah yes, the dreaded 010-READ-INPUT-FILE paragraphs and suchlike. Great stuff. I once decided to fix a large C program by changing all the little function names into the "a100_initialize" pattern. Then, of course, rearranging the functions into called order. I expected the owning C programmer to object but he was happy with the change. He couldn't navigate the code either. -- Dan Espen
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Re: iBM System/3 FORTRAN for engineering/science work? J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2021-06-16 16:08 -0400
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Re: iBM System/3 FORTRAN for engineering/science work? Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2021-10-06 04:18 -0700
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Re: iBM System/3 FORTRAN for engineering/science work? Robin Vowels <robin.vowels@gmail.com> - 2021-06-30 18:10 -0700
Re: iBM System/3 FORTRAN for engineering/science work? undefined Hancock-4 <hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> - 2021-07-01 11:36 -0700
Re: iBM System/3 FORTRAN for engineering/science work? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2021-07-02 23:28 +0000
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Re: iBM System/3 FORTRAN for engineering/science work? J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2021-07-07 17:06 -0400
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