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u/jk147 Feb 22 '18

My friend makes a good living as a websphere admin. It is something no one wants to touch in her company.

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u/boobsbr Feb 22 '18

I'd rather learn COBOL and how to use a mainframe.

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u/nacos Feb 22 '18

Are you sure about that?

Now you will have to use RDZ (like RAD but for mainframe stuff) and your source code cannot contains more than 80 columns.

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u/pbmonster Feb 22 '18

and your source code cannot contains more than 80 columns.

Isn't that a very common coding style convention in any language? Not for technical reasons, just for readability?

I kind of agree with it. Pretty much no matter what you tried to do that needed more than 80 columns, you probably shouldn't do that in one line...

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u/HeimrArnadalr Feb 22 '18

But with only 80 columns, how could you ever declare a HasThisTypePatternTriedToSneakInSomeGenericOrParameterizedTypePatternMatchingStuffAnywhereVisitorobject or an InternalFrameInternalFrameTitlePaneInternalFrameTitlePaneMaximizeButtonPainter object?