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> We had a boss named Herman... Oh, funny! I thought it was "her man" when I first saw it. Not quite the Genesis code, is it? <g> db > -----Original Message----- > From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx / Steve Landess > Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 5:23 PM > > The same programmer was also a jokester - > he would arrange source statements in the code so that > if you read down the first character of the field names > that they would spell out words or sentences - I found > this quite by accident one day. > > Example: > MOVE *BLANKS HLD1 > MOVE *BLANKS E$ > MOVE *BLANKS RFLG > MOVE *BLANKS MTH > MOVE *BLANKS ADATE > MOVE *ZEROS NBR > > MOVE *BLANKS SVCO > MOVE *BLANKS USER > MOVE *BLANKS CO > MOVE *BLANKS K$ > MOVE *ZEROS SEQNBR > > We had a boss named Herman... > > Steve
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