Captain Cobol is my hero! Watch Captain Cobol and the Fortran Friends defeat the evil Master Control Program. Watch our heroes dodge annoying SOC7's and the dreaded SOC4, and defeat the MCP with the secret weapon, the //SYSIN DD DUMMY!
Okay, so maybe this is a comic from the Golden Age...
-PJ
Captain Cobol, indeed. Took some programming courses, including Cobol, but never used them. Except...when a customer had an errant program messing up the operation of the equipment I was responsible for.
The problem was with formatting. The problem was ten years running. The problem couldn’t be fixed because the program was in spaghetti code and without documentation. I asked if possibly the formatting had been done with formatting code (whatever that column 1 stuff is called) and not embedded code.
The problem was then fixed in a few days. Sometimes a little knowledge is not such a dangerous thing.