Re: 'Forgot your password?'

Skitt wrote, in <VomdnUUvF5vA11banZ2dnUVZ_jOdnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxx>
on Sun, 2 Mar 2008 16:46:17 -0800:

I have mentiond this here before, but once I was told to add a section to
some firmware written in PACE (an assembly language) by an employee who was
no longer with the company. I had never heard of PACE and thought the
assignment was a joke. I learned that it wasn't. There was no PACE manual
available either. Anyway, I managed.

I came back from holiday once and went to the office to be told to go to a
customer I had never worked for before and write a program for them. I
turned up there and found that they were a PL1 shop, a language about
which I knew nothing being largely a COBOL programmer with IBM assembler
when required. I rang my office and was told that there was no one else
available and I had better get on with it. There was another chap from
our firm already there so I got a crash course from him and set to work.
The program was delivered on time and to spec and after I left I heard
that it was being used as an example of how a PL1 program should be
written.
--
Nick Spalding
BrE/IrE
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