Re: AS/400 RPG Certification Test

Pete,

Actually I'll do you one better, a GOOD PROGRAMMER knows how to cut and
paste from existing code or from his own library of routines and doesn't
bother remembering trivial stuff like you're eluding to here...not to
mention DOES NOT write each and every program from scratch...

Don in DC

On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Pete Hall wrote:

> At 08:56 09/02/98 -0500, Richard Baird wrote:
> >Ken,
> >
> >I took the test, got a 92. (woohoo)
> 
> 
> I suppose at some level these tests are fine, but I really question their 
>value for anything but the lowest skill level. I write several different 
>languages, and currently two different dialects of RPG. It' just not possible 
>to keep it all 100% straight. For the more esoteric things (which indicators 
>do what for TESTN? How do you find the system name for an SQL table? What the 
>~@!# is the op code for rollback this week?), I look it up in the manual. 
>Life's too short to worry about this crap. You'd have to be an idiot savant. I 
>think it's much more important to know how to quickly find that obscure bit of 
>info than it is to be able to recite it on command. A good programmer can 
>quickly shift gears and adapt to whatever environment is at hand. I'll always 
>prefer someone who can think over someone who can only recite.
> 
> Pete Hall
> peteh@inwave.com 
> http://www.inwave.com/~peteh/
> 
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