| Steve Litt on 1 May 2018 14:07:21 -0700 |
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| Re: [PLUG] [plug-announce] Wed May 2 - PLUG Central - "A Punch Card Ate My Program" by Walt Mankowski (7pm at USP) |
On Tue, 1 May 2018 11:57:20 -0400
"Paul L. Snyder" <paul@pataprogramming.com> wrote:
> Abstract:
> In previous talks, I argued that COBOL isnât such a bad
> language. In this talk, weâll journey deep into the past to
> recreate a retro bug that could only happen in COBOL! Our
> travels will include:
>
> syntactic white space!
> scotch tape!
> dueling compiler options!
> virtual punch cards!
> sentences!
> code blocks!
> periods!
Don't forget the Alter statement.
SteveT
Steve Litt
April 2018 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques
of the Successful Technologist
http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques
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