So there I was, about 6 months ago, working on an IBM mainframe with a piece of COBOL code that wasn't working. The code was supposed to take a comma-delimited string and parse it out into a fixed width string. For those of you who are familiar with COBOL, this is not a trivial task.
The relevant section of code was about 150 lines of rather dense (for COBOL) code. After reading through it and seeing what was going on, I realized that the original author did not understand the proper use of the UNSTRING function (which is similar in concept to Perl's split function).
I rewrote the code and fixed the bug. In the process, I managed to shrink it down to about 80 lines of code. Then, just to play around, I rewrote that section in Perl.
It took 10 lines of code.
Any guesses as to why I quit? And for the record, I am 32 years old and I occassionally found myself fixing code that was written before I was born. :(
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RE: COBOL vs. Perl
by btrott (Parson) on Jun 14, 2000 at 09:59 UTC | |
by Ovid (Cardinal) on Jun 14, 2000 at 10:01 UTC | |
by Anonymous Monk on Dec 12, 2003 at 02:33 UTC | |
by delirium (Chaplain) on Dec 12, 2003 at 03:38 UTC | |
by Anonymous Monk on Jan 02, 2004 at 21:47 UTC | |
by Anonymous Monk on Oct 15, 2012 at 22:57 UTC | |
RE: COBOL vs. Perl
by eduardo (Curate) on Jun 20, 2000 at 04:26 UTC | |
RE: COBOL vs. Perl
by cbraga (Pilgrim) on Jun 19, 2000 at 03:56 UTC | |
by orkysoft (Friar) on Jun 29, 2000 at 19:10 UTC | |
RE: COBOL vs. Perl
by davorg (Chancellor) on Jun 14, 2000 at 12:26 UTC | |
by Ovid (Cardinal) on Jun 14, 2000 at 21:34 UTC | |
by gnat (Beadle) on Jun 15, 2000 at 00:10 UTC | |
by Anonymous Monk on Jun 21, 2000 at 22:04 UTC | |
RE: COBOL vs. Perl
by JanneVee (Friar) on Jun 14, 2000 at 20:38 UTC | |
by Anonymous Monk on Jun 17, 2000 at 02:24 UTC |
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