Comment Viruses? (Score 1) 188
Great. Now when you get a virus, it'll be able to reprogram your *hardware*. I'm sure that couldn't go horribly wrong at all...
01 WS-Temp-Variables-Rec.
03 WS-Data-1 Pic X(100)....
03 WS-Working-Balance Pic s9(18)v99 Comp-3.....
Followed by somewhere in the code:
*> Initialise working rec
MOVE SPACES TO WS-TEMP-VARIABLES-REC
...
*> Update the balance
ADD WS-CURRENT-AMOUNT TO WS-WORKING-BALANCE
Seen it done and seen the results far too many times...
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.