Friday, May 06, 2011

Geek Amusements

In order for some commands in IBM's Job Control Language (JCL) to work properly, a program must be executed, even if there is nothing that the program needs to do. Hence the standard IBM utility program IEFBR14, which was designed to not do anything at all.

There have been several versions released over the years, meaning that it took IBM multiple tries to write a program that does nothing.

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