Re: COBOL interview tests

HeyBub wrote:
LX-i wrote:

How about that - I learned something! :)

Yeah, but at what cost. You had to make room for something your experience says will probably never be used.

Say goodbye to the fifth grade.

Not necessarily. Granted, today I could probably write a MERGE without looking at a manual - but three weeks from now, I'd probably forget the syntax and have to look it up again. Rather than try to memorize every possible option, I instead like to dedicate a portion of my memory store to knowing *where* things are documented. That keeps me from having to memorize the manuals, leaving room for lots of 5th grade memories - even the one about the girl that wouldn't go out with me.

(On second thought, maybe I *should* study this MERGE thing a little bit more...)


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