21 May
2021
21 May
'21
8:41 p.m.
On Fri May 21 2021 12:05:07 J Leslie Turriff wrote:
In my years as a mainframe programmer and later administrator, I did indeed encounter quite a number of Real Men who complained that IBM provides "too much documentation".
Back in the day us RealMen™ lived on stale coffee and mainframe error codes such IPD006. We didn't need namby pamby documentation to explain that IPD006 was the FORTRAN compiler trying to tell us "Expression Expected". None of us had access to the inner shrine where the documentation[1] was kept safe so if you couldn't guess what an error code meant you just weren't one of us RealMen.
[1] http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/360/os/R21.7_Apr73/GC28-6631-13_OS_360_R21....