Jonathan Campbell wrote:

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

Just make sure you haven't missed the full stop ;-)

I managed a bit of self-taught COBOL on a DG mainframe, but it
was hard going.

Chris
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Chris J Dixon Nottingham UK


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