Real IT consulting with real people
Posted by Mike on Wednesday, July 7, 2010 - 500 views
A techie shares experiences from working at a university’s computer consulting office
Programming pranks
When I first started working in the consulting office, one of our regular clients was a staff member, a programmer who happened to be blind. He programmed in PL/1 and Cobol, which, as the old-timers will remember, could be quite verbose. He would show up with a hundred-page printout and ask for help in debugging it. I would read the printout and we would carry on a discussion of the logic and so on. He seemed to have his entire program memorized, because he of course could not read it, yet he knew every line of code. I was amazed.
