RE: F Specs on an OVRDBF

Hmmm, then maybe I could turn Elle MacPherson into an AS/400 programmer?
Too non-PC for public office, but she'd fit right in at my home office.

But then I'd never get any work done...

<G>

- Dan Bale

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> From: pcunnane@learningco.com [SMTP:pcunnane@learningco.com]
> Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 1:08 PM
> To:   'RPG400-L@midrange.com'
> Subject:      Re: F Specs on an OVRDBF
> 
>      A very good friend of mine used to describe this concept as a 
>      'cardboard programmer.'  He reckoned you could use anyone -- 
>      theoretically, even a cardboard cutout -- as a 'diagnostic tool' in 
>      this way.  I thought it was an excellent phrase.
>      
>      -- 
>      Paul
> 
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> Subject: RE: F Specs on an OVRDBF
> Author:  "Bale; Dan" <DBale@lear.com> at INTERNET
> Date:    09-06-00 2:56 pm
> 
> 
> Laura, sometimes the simplest things are gonna stump ya. <g>
>      
> How many on the list have done this?  Even (especially?) the experienced 
> ones.  You struggle with a programming problem - your code isn't doing
> what 
> it's supposed to do.  You look at it over and over and over, and, finally,
> 
> you ask your colleague to come over and look at the code.  He/she walks 
> over, you start explaining line-by-line, and then it hits you square in
> the 
> old noggin!  You look at your colleague, who hasn't said a danged thing
> yet, 
> and you say "Thank you!"
>      
> It's a good reason to have imaginary friends!
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