On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, perthie wrote:
> code such as the above is only a problem in environments where the code
> must be *guarenteed* to work or must be maintainable 10 years after its
> written. i sincerly hope the above program needs no maintenance in
> 2015. :)
COBOL programmers in the 1970s thought their code would have been long gone
by 2000. They were wrong too.
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