Re: worst RPG ever seen?

[Don <dr2@xxxxxxxx>]

Doug,

sure he was programming in RPG when he won the award?



At 12:16 PM 2/28/2006 -0500, you wrote:
> David,
>
> Many moons ago I worked on some RPG II code that used every numeric
> > indicator, all the Ux indicators, and a few of the Hx indicators
>
>
> Back in 1980, I had a programmer come to me with a similar program (also a
> Workstn program using the RPG II cycle on a S34).  He had used all 99
> indicators, U1-U8, L1-L9, and H1-H9 but couldn't figure out why he wasn't
> allowed to use M1-M9 as indicators too since he still "needed" more of them.
>
> Even worse, this guy had won some "structured programming technique" award
> at his vo-tech school though I never understood why.  Maybe it was an
> obfuscation award.  :)
>
> Doug
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