Re: Mainframers ... according to RW

..    On  23.11.04
wrote  dashwood@enternet.co.nz (Pete Dashwood)
on  /COMP/LANG/COBOL
in  30ge8tF30hjhaU1@uni-berlin.de
about  Re: Mainframers ... according to RW (was: Infinite Loops and Explicit


PD> RULES FOR STEALTH COBOL.(These techniques are Top Secret and Company
PD> Private. When properly applied they will outsmart the enemy, who will
PD> never be able to crack our COBOL applications.)
PD>
PD> 1. All data and procedure names will be encrypted around your
PD> maternal Grandmother's maiden name.

Arbitrary numbers are enough, and in wide use, just to confuse the
Russians...

Thou shalt not give understandable _names_ to your objects, but
assign codes for them which have to be deciphered using the site
codebook, aka style guides.


Yours,
Lüko Willms                                     http://www.willms-edv.de
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