Let’s look at an archetypal MVS site. Kenny wrote most of the original Assembler and quite a bit of the COBOL code that drove the business all those years ago. He was a big man and a real hippie. He even came to work in his sandals and decorated his office with album covers. He thought that writing comments in code was just a waste of time. Doug, who took over from Kenny was an absolute troglodyte.

The one-dimensional vanish-and-reappear act, now in two dimensions!

When I first started in this profession, I had a very wise mentor (although, at the time, I just thought of him as "a friend" ;-) who would occasionally make suggestions to me about my code. I met him at "The Computer Center" which was located across from the Student Union at OU and was where all the geeks went to use the card punch machines (yes, I just dated myself and, yes, I did use those 80 column

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