http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/12/10/probability-of-semantic-markup-being-correct/ The blog of John D. Cook Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:42:11 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/12/10/probability-of-semantic-markup-being-correct/comment-page-1/#comment-10769 Blaise F Egan Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:28:40 +0000 http://www.johndcook.com/blog/?p=1075#comment-10769 In the early 80s I was a COBOL programmer, one of 72 programmers and analysts supporting a large, bespoke company payroll program that paid 500,000 people. One of our senior programmers once gave a talk on the subject of 'structured programming'. In it,he mentioned that in one of our programs he had seen a variable called THREE that was set to equal 2. (Presumably, it had been set to 3 sometime in the past.) In the early 80s I was a COBOL programmer, one of 72 programmers and analysts supporting a large, bespoke company payroll program that paid 500,000 people. One of our senior programmers once gave a talk on the subject of ’structured programming’. In it,he mentioned that in one of our programs he had seen a variable called THREE that was set to equal 2. (Presumably, it had been set to 3 sometime in the past.)

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