Software Gore

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Deliberately bad software or bad design is not software gore, it must be something unintentional

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submitted 6 months ago by JPDev to c/software_gore

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I learned COBOL programming on that system. COBOL’s sequential file data type was all about space-delimited text files. Part of a program would define the various input & output files. For example a numerical userid might take up columns 1-8 then the first initial would be in column 10 then the last name in columns 12-20 and so on…