24 Oct
2008
24 Oct
'08
7:23 p.m.
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Bill Campbell centos@celestial.com wrote:
Programming to the lowest common denominator may not feel sexy, but it can prevent many headaches in the future. I spent quite a bit of time many years ago getting a large FORTRAN system working that had been written on a system that use 7 character variable names where standard FORTRAN only permitted 6 (it was amazing how many of the variable names differed only in the 7th character). While this would be relatively easy to deal with today, it was a bitch when all programs were on 80-column punch cards.
Okay, now you're officially old.
(Like me.)
mhr