Timeline for My boss wants a narrated line-by-line English explanation of our code
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| Sep 7, 2011 at 1:26 | comment | added | heltonbiker | Perhaps he is trying to figure out what the code does to see if he agrees with the reasoning and perhaps get better ideas. In any case, it is not his job to do so, at least not that way... | |
| Sep 6, 2011 at 22:51 | comment | added | oosterwal | COBOL was meant to be read in English. | |
| Sep 6, 2011 at 21:47 | comment | added | mmc | If the boss is "afraid you are going to make your code do something he doesn't approve or is aware of" this will do nothing to alleviate his fears. The same person is providing the translation who wrote the code. What's to stop them from lying about what it does? There's something else going on here. | |
| Sep 6, 2011 at 17:43 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by JeffO | ||
| Sep 6, 2011 at 15:45 | comment | added | IAbstract |
Even with an English translation, a non-programmer may very well believe: /* and this line is transferring deposits to the correct account */ deposits.TransferAll(acctInfo);
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| Sep 6, 2011 at 15:41 | history | answered | Pablo Santa Cruz | CC BY-SA 3.0 |