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The Language of Bad Love.

The author discusses his experiences as a computer technical representative. In his career as a technical representative, he traveled to customer sites to do routine upgrading of operating systems, fixing software virus, training of personnel and assisting of computer managers. One experience he enc...

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Published in:Computer (00189162) Vol. 39; no. 10; pp. 7 - 10
Main Author: Grier, David Alan
Format: Article
Published: IEEE Oct2006
Subjects:
Computer operating systems
COBOL (Computer program language)
Upgrading of personal computers
Systems software
Computer programming
Computer programmers
Computer software
First person narrative
Narration
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:The author discusses his experiences as a computer technical representative. In his career as a technical representative, he traveled to customer sites to do routine upgrading of operating systems, fixing software virus, training of personnel and assisting of computer managers. One experience he encountered was the problem in a hospital's network system which was using the Cobol program. The hospital claimed it was operating too slow. He noted the major deficiencies of the program that reduced its effectiveness as a common language. He then had to rewrite some of the program to fix the problem.