Quote #124
`Do not use procedures; they are expensive'.
-- -- from IBM's PL/I (F) documentation, circa 1966
`Do not use procedures; they are expensive'.
-- -- from IBM's PL/I (F) documentation, circa 1966
Related:
- IBM /I-B-M/
Inferior But Marketable; It's Better
Manually;
Insidious Black Magic; It's Been Malfunctioning; ... - IBM had a PL/I,
Its syntax worse than JOSS;
And everywhere this language went, It was... - RTFB /R-T-F-B/ imp.
[Unix] Abbreviation for `Read The Fucking
Binary'.
Used when neither documentation nor source for the... - RTFB: /R-T-F-B/ [UNIX] imp. Acronym for `Read The Fucking
Binary'.
Used when neither documentation nor source for the... - Quote #601
Most documentation starts as hastily scrawled notes from sleep-deprived
developers who weren't necessarily hired for their keen communication
skills.
Those notes are then fleshed out by recently graduated... - Quote #519
My favorite PL/I type conversion example:
Declare A, B, and C as three-character strings. B='123'... - IBM: It may be slow,
but at least it's expensive...
