Subj : Re: Undocument Bespoke Applications
To   : Blue White
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Thu Feb 15 2024 06:50:00

-=> Blue White wrote to Bob Worm <=-

 BW> Indeed.  We had a few COBOL devs that liked to make things much more
 BW> "clever " (read "difficult to maintain") than they needed to.  I think
 BW> it was called job security.  ;)

 My first IT success was replacing a guy who tried making his code
 obtuse in a quest for job security. I was tasked with fixing a 350-line
 program to reflect a data format change, and instead re-wrote it in
 around 100 lines of readable code. With comments.



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