Re: Date compare Best Practices

As is so  often the case Simon you are correct, in my opinion.  

However there is a really nice desktop application at http://wordweb.info/
that I've found to be surprisingly useful in day to day work. 
 
 
 
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From: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Date: 02/27/04 05:11:57
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: Date compare Best Practices
 
On Friday, February 27, 2004, at 11:05  AM, Joubert, Robert wrote:
 
> Dictionary?  I am DANG lucky to have email and stationery never mind
> Internet access!!!
 
What does Internet access have to do with it? I presume you are a
programmer therefore you can be expected to write documentation
therefore you should have a printed dictionary and thesaurus readily
available. Or is that as unreasonable as expecting programmers to RTFM
or have some glimmering into the workings of Floats or Endian-ness or
ASCII vs. EBCDIC or data structures (as in lists, queues, collections,
etc) or relative efficiency of sorts or any one of the dozen things I
seem to be alone in expecting programmers (even so-called business
programmers) to know? Perhaps the lack of access to suitable references
is contributing to the appalling collapse of public language thus we
end up with the drivel colloquially known as "Office Speak" which is
not so far removed from Orwell's NewSpeak. Samuel Clemens supposedly
made the following comments:
  http://www.wisdomquotes.com/001236.html
 
Mind you he didn't much care for consistent spelling so what can one
say? Perhaps the attribution at
http://www.ojohaven.com/fun/spelling.html is correct.
 
Now I really will stop.
 
Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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