Re: Need for separate Input and Output Areas in Display File -- COBOL400-L

Dear R. Bruce Hoffman, JR,

If I have touched on a raw nerve, it was not intentional.

I made a polite request and before it goes any further and these exchanges
get unpleasant, I will rest my case and not respond to any more emails
protesting about my views which are different to a few others out there (or
at least the rest are too busy making a living to have time to contradict me
for the sake of it). I don't think what I asked was such a controversial
issue?

Thank you

Hamid
----- Original Message -----
From: "R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr." <rbruceh@attglobal.net>
To: <HamidGhaffari@bigfoot.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 3:31 PM
Subject: Re: Need for separate Input and Output Areas in Display File


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Hamid Ghaffari" <HamidGhaffari@bigfoot.com>
> To: <cobol400-l@midrange.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 9:37 AM
> Subject: Re: Need for separate Input and Output Areas in Display File
>
>
> > If you read my original submission carefully you'll see that you are now
> > being silly! The point (which I am sure hasn't escaped you0 was to
> restrict
> > ourselves to matters technical.
>
> Oh, good, I'm glad that you see that I _am_ just being silly. I thought
you
> might miss that. Of course, what you fail to see is that you are being at
> least as silly.
> So what technical discourse is the flury of email that you are sending
> convey? As for Leif, I understand your point, but Leif has been a valuable
> contributor on several of the Midrange Lists. I am still deciding what if
> any contribution you might be making or will make. So, the door is still
> open for you, at least in my "dismissive" camp.
>
> > Not to mention the fact not everyone can start off by being "IBM
certified
> > x, y and z" so don't be dismissive of those who have just started and
use
> > the list to hopefully (one day) become "IBM certified ....". Besides,
> what's
> > an RPG developer doing contributing to this list?!?!
>
> Nor did I "start off" certified. As  for dismissive, my personal opinion
is
> that you should take a good hard look in the mirror. As a matter of fact,
> Joe is one of those people that's new to COBOL and the list, not to me or
to
> the AS/400-iSeries world admittedly, but none the less, we did not dismiss
> him.
>
> As for your issue with my RPG credentials, it was not my first language
nor
> was it my last language. COBOL was actually my first. I am and have been
> paid to produce code as well as standards and teaching in COBOL, RPGII,
> RPGIII, RPGIV, Java, C, Fortran, C++, PL/I, BASIC, Pascal and other
> not-so-well-known languages. My experience covers more than two decades. I
> have worked with COBOL throughout from 68ANS, through 74 and 85. I was the
> Languages Project Manager at COMMON when we actually had classes on COBOL
> and PL/I for the System/38 (at my urging).
>
> So, before you go dismissing people that know RPG, you might want to find
> out more about them first.
>
>
>
>