Or should I say, MVS/JES2/COBOL programmers, because it is that environment that strongly encourages temporary flatfiles, walking resultsets and programming-in-batch.

Back in the days of DOS and DOS-based LANs, we needed an application to "lock" a PC without actually logging out. Banyan didn't provide one. My boss discovered you could fake input to the DOS password change program from a QuickBASIC program without it showing on the screen. His "LanLock" program looked like he'd written it in COBOL and translated it... My version was quite quite different.

Wade.