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  • Subject: Re: Performance Review
  • From: "Leif Svalgaard" <leif@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 16:21:32 -0500

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
> >
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