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From: mnyk...
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 1990 11:10

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An acquintance of mine was hired to speed up a COBOL accounting program
which used some 8 hours to process some 1000's of transactions. She
discovered that the program processed the first transaction, then
REWOUND the file, sought the second, bypassing the first, rewound,
sought the third, etc.. Instead of some 1000's of file operations the
program performed some 1000000's!
-- 
Matti Nyk{nen			CS Student at Helsinki U, Finland
Trepanation!			email: mnyk...@cc.helsinki.fi

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Subject: Re: Stupid programming errors
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