Another day fixing shonky code in an obscure language

[vetran]

Life story? No, job replacement.

Trouble is, each gig is slightly different so I have to keep re-writing it. Current ClientCo requires monitoring of email, slack and webex for incoming nonsense. I think, however, the coming of our new AI overlord is going to work a treat in my favour.

did you want a copy of the macro generator?

Open excel , type the two lines in then invoice!

[vetran]

Nope, that belongs to LM, who is still working on her killer 2 line life story macro.

2 line pah.

One has to enjoy 17,000 lines of macro with absolutely no inline comments and a menu with 30+ features plus no documentation.

Luckily like Zulu there are there are fousands of em!

You know you have struck gold when your predecessor has created a Macro generator that cranks out such code

[ladymuck]

Nope, that belongs to LM, who is still working on her killer 2 line life story macro.

Life story? No, job replacement.

Trouble is, each gig is slightly different so I have to keep re-writing it. Current ClientCo requires monitoring of email, slack and webex for incoming nonsense. I think, however, the coming of our new AI overlord is going to work a treat in my favour.

[Gibbon]

Hurrah now I am head Macro wonk, no good deed goes unpunished

Nope, that belongs to LM, who is still working on her killer 2 line life story macro.

[vetran]

Hurrah now I am head Macro wonk, no good deed goes unpunished

[DoctorStrangelove]

APL? It's ok as long as no one nicks the golfball out of the printer. .

https://techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/~jo...llprinter.HTML

[vetran]

any Cobol and Fortran?

Nah an obscure variant of basic not even from M$.

Have over my life bodged various UNIX scripts, LANSA, various VB variants, C, C++,perl various reporting languages/scripts QLik , Diver, OBIEE etc.

Next its Python

[WTFH]

any Cobol and Fortran?

Or LISP

[Paddy]

I'm just sticky taping it at the moment. I suggested doing it in something decent but they have built a whole process on it 100s of macros, not so much biblical sand as a foundation more made from a swamp with alligators.

But hey they pay pretty well and I work from home.

I'm using it to auto create python, BIML, SQL code soon, not just JSON & Yaml.

any Cobol and Fortran?

[cojak]

I'm just sticky taping it at the moment. I suggested doing it in something decent but they have built a whole process on it 100s of macros, not so much biblical sand as a foundation more made from a swamp with alligators.

But hey they pay pretty well and I work from home.

I'm using it to auto create python, BIML, SQL code soon, not just JSON & Yaml.

As eek would say, you're just there for the entertainment (and the generous day rate , obvs!).

[vetran]

Well if you will keep writing it...

I'm just sticky taping it at the moment. I suggested doing it in something decent but they have built a whole process on it 100s of macros, not so much biblical sand as a foundation more made from a swamp with alligators.

But hey they pay pretty well and I work from home.

I'm using it to auto create python, BIML, SQL code soon, not just JSON & Yaml.

[ladymuck]

Well if you will keep writing it...

[vetran]

Its the red headed step child of VB today.

Thank goodness they pay well.