Re: COBOL compiler
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 01:15:13 -0500,
Michael Heironimus <mkh01@earthlink.net> wrote in message
<[🔎] 20030827061513.GA23589@demonspawn.sterno.shacknet.nu>:
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 11:57:27PM -0400, Al Davis wrote:
> > Learn the style, so when someone gives you a COBOL-style
> > program in C++, you will understand it.
>
> Do not underestimate the value of this. You can take a COBOL
> programmer and teach him C/C++/Java (or whatever popular language),
> and he'll pick up the syntax just fine. And as soon as you tell him to
> write something he'll write code that looks EXACTLY like COBOL in
> C/C++/Java syntax. It will be unreadable, unmaintainable, and
> hopelessly inefficient, but nobody will ever have time for the rewrite
> it desperately needs.
..so, on hiring, I should drop the COBOL guys? ;-)
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