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  3. April 2001

Re: What counts as technically slick?

  • Subject: Re: What counts as technically slick?
  • From: "Leif Svalgaard" <leif@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 15:38:15 -0500
 
From: Buck Calabro <Buck.Calabro@commsoft.net>
> James Kilgore gave a great example of something that's too slick (the old
> MDY-YMD date multiply trick.)  Are there any other contributions?

in COBOL:
02 XX PIC 9(4).
02 YY  PIC S9(4) VALUE 7.
02 ZZ  PIC S9(4) VALUE 5.
...
COMPUTE XX = ZZ - YY
DISPLAY XX


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