On: How to shoot yourself in the foot in any programmi...

[meapix]

my favorite is unix way of shooting in the foot.

[rkv → meapix]

That and Perl.

[twic → rkv]

Mine is the 370 JCL, because of the surreal but instantly familiar "three years later, your foot comes back deep-fried".

The only problem is that neither i nor anybody else alive today has any idea what 370 JCL is. Can someone repurpose this to be about the Cloud?

[AndrewDucker → twic]

Thankfully, I don't have to deal with it any more, but Z/OS JCL is dealt with on a daily basis by people sitting within five feet of me.

[twic → AndrewDucker]

They have five feet? Sounds like someone ran the batch too many times.