RE: X-Spec--old habits become the only habits

[Colin Williams <Williamsc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Or can sometimes mean "programmer who knows a little bit about a
package, but hasn't coded for 5 years or more, and hasn't even heard of 
RPGIV".

-----Original Message-----
From: david.kahn@gb.abb.com [mailto:david.kahn@gb.abb.com]
Sent: Friday, May 14, 1999 9:15 AM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: RE: X-Spec--old habits become the only habits




Joel Fritz <JFritz@sharperimage.com> wrote:

>A couple of months later my friend told me that the Y2K
>consultants this client had hired came to him for an explanation of my
>program.

Isn't a consultant supposed to explain bread and butter stuff to you
rather than
the other way round? I think "consultant" these days is often used in
its looser
sense of "minimally skilled jobbing programmer".

Dave Kahn, ABB Steward Ltd.


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