[COFF] [TUHS] The 2038 bug...

[grog at lemis.com (Greg 'groggy' Lehey)]

Redirecting to COFF.  COBOL has really nothing to do with Unix.

On Thursday,  7 January 2021 at 20:25:56 -0500, Nemo Nusquam wrote:
> On 01/07/21 17:56, Stuart Remphrey wrote (in part):
>>> Dave, who's kept his COBOL knowledge a secret in every job
>>
>> Indeed! [...]; but especially COBOL: apart from everything else, too
>> much like writing a novel to get anything done.
>
> As long as we are bashing COBOL, I recall that someone -- name forgotten
> -- wrote a parody that contained statements such as "Verily, let the
> noble variable N be assigned the value known as one".

Heh.  In 1973 I was once required to abandon assembler, the language
of Real Programmers, and write a program in COBOL (in fact, a database
front end to COBOL).  I took revenge in the label names.  From
http://www.lemis.com/grog/src/GOPU

     INVOKE SCHEMA KVDMS COPYING COMMON ALL
           RECORD COMMON DELIVERY-AREA IS PUFFER
           OVERLAY PUFFER WITH ALL
           ERROR RECOVERY IS HELL
           ROLLBACK IS IMPOSSIBLE.
     ...
     MAKE-GOPU.  IF ERROR-STATUS IS NOT EQUAL TO '000307', GO TO
           HELL.

Admire that manifest constant.

And yes, this program went into production.

Greg
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