by Richard Evans <infodex@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Nov 30, 2007 at 09:52 PM
Tony Harding <ToHard@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Last time I installed a new mouse, Windows was down for a week.
>
>1. Windows is crap - everyone knows that
>
>2. I'm guessing you're not a professional programmer. :)
Retired. Are you going to try to tell me you could write and execute
code that could control a subway system and run it flawlessly the
first time?
I suspect this was before your time, but have you ever heard of
IEFBR14? From Wikipedia:
"IEFBR14 is an IBM mainframe utility program. It runs in all IBM
mainframe environments derived from OS/360, including z/OS. It is a
placeholder whose purpose is to do nothing. As it turned out, over the
years, it would have problems correctly doing nothing and would
sometimes fail in the task."
The story of writing it is here:
http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=945355
It was a program that did *nothing* and it took several attempts to
get it to work right.
