Richard Evans wrote:
> 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.
Same here.
> 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?
Of course not - did you see my post regarding a test bed?
> I suspect this was before your time, but have you ever heard of
> IEFBR14?
Heard of it? Hah, I practically wrote it (worked for IBM 1965-70).
> 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.
The Seinfeld of the S/360 era!
Define "nothing", IIRC one issue was setting the RC.
I'm still wondering how a new mouse took Windows down for a week?
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