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a well-written program is a well-written program and can be better maintained that a poorly written program, no matter what. ----- Original Message ----- From: Joel Fritz <JFritz@sharperimage.com> To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com> Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 3:43 PM Subject: RE: Performance Review > A couple of years ago, a friend of mine was asked by the Y2K consultants at > one of his clients about a small program I had written while sub-contracting > for him. It used RPGIV date handling to reformat numeric dates. Their > question was pretty much "What is this stuff?" > > I guess the other question you could ask is "What is mainstream.?" > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Ed Chabot [mailto:echabot@marlinfirearms.com] > > Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 1:24 PM > > To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com > > Subject: RE: Performance Review > > > > > > Leif, > > I agree as long as the T.S. programs are written in such a > > way that they can > > be maintained by the mainstream programming staff. If they > > are T.S. because > > you have one programmer that uses techniques or op codes that > > the rest of > > the staff isn't familiar with, then your whole maintenance > > argument goes out > > the window. Not all departments or all programmers can or > > desire to stay on > > top of the latest techniques and, in some cases, may be more efficient > > writing programs that use older techniques or op codes that they are > > familiar with. I'm sure we would all like to think that > > every P/A wants to > > know all the latest techniques and op codes but it's just not > > real world. > > > > Ed Chabot > > The Marlin Firearms Company > > 100 Kenna Drive > > North Haven, CT 06473 > > (203)985-3254 > > > +--- > | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! > | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. > | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. > | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. > | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com > +--- +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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