Kal Feher
Review BoardSomewhere, right now, a developer is sorting 400 COBOL cards off a computer room floor after a late night of keying. Nobody wants to look at it. Nobody cares.
But we do.
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Matthew Martin@reviewboard So when I get a request to pull my cart of punch cards to the computer room, will my team get a notification, like a 3x5 postcard in the mail?
@mistersql Yes, and we'll helpfully batch your notifications to reduce your mailbox size.
Please make sure you've topped off your Postage Plan's stamp credits to avoid delays. Our sales department can help with that.
Steve Loughran@reviewboard thought the reason that the first 8 (?) chars of cobol lines were blank was to let you number them and feed through the autosorter. Same for basic and fortran. The latter didn't even care if you had a space in a variable name as people would do it by accident. ...
Juan@reviewboard Coffee stain detected 😂
@juanux A common fault in many programs. Got to catch these issues early.