Absolutely Correct 

This error message appeared on many terminal screens some time after a COBOL programmer was 'let go',

THIS MESSAGE SHOULD NOT APPPEAR

It took several people looking through thousands of lines of code to find the hidden message...

Submitted by: Ray Erlandson

Makes me wonder if they hadn’t heard of search utilities. Of course, Ray has specified that there were COBOL programmers involved so, maybe, that can make sense.

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