On 2009-05-16 13:28:46 +0100, Jonathan Campbell
said:

Gordon H wrote:
[...]
I had been put in the position of writing a Cobol program without
having any training, so I had to work from the green book (can't
remember the authors now), and crib from the print-out of a
comprehensive program someone had written.

My first job after joining a consultancy in the early 1980s was to
write a Programmers' Manual for a new Cobol compiler for Z-80 based
computer.

This in spite of the fact that I had not ever programmed a line of
COBOL. Nor had we a copy of the compiler and/or any computer that would
execute it.

And you all wondered why computer manuals were so useless ...

Now, I wish somebody would write a manual on how to grow carrots --- or
even to get more than 1% of the seeds to germinate

Best regards,

Jon C.

See if there's any help here - there's a FAQ on carrot fly. ;-)
http://www.u-r-g.co.uk/urgfaqs.htm

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