Got time for a story? This comes from the mid 1980's when I was toiling in the COBOL mines.
There was this contractor working in the same shop we called the 'Garbage Can Coder'. The boss loved him because he was easily ten times as fast as anyone else there. But we all hated maintaining his code because of the way he achieved that speed: he had a single file that did nearly everything, which he started every program from. We called that file his 'garbage can'.
[contd]
Jack William Bell
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