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Re: Code Review - Seen on Slashdot Today
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Roy Brown <[log in to unmask]>
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Roy Brown <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 5 Jan 2013 00:41:33 +0000
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In message <[log in to unmask]>, Paul Edwards 
<[log in to unmask]> writing at 14:01:48 in his/her local time opines:-
>I had a customer who wrote in COBOL and was a sailing nut. He used sailing
>terms for all of his variables, data item, base, and data set names. Very
>hard to follow his logic.

Probably started out in the days when programs came on decks of 
cards.....

-- 
Roy Brown        'Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be
Kelmscott Ltd     useful, or believe to be beautiful'  William Morris

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