GUIs vs Green Screens (was After 2000)

[HankHeath@xxxxxxx]

Anecdote to go with the GUI/Green screen thread:

I have had a couple of VisualBASIC (VB) programmers working on one of my
projects. They absolutely *gush* at how wonderful it is to program in that
environment.

The latest is an ex-mainframer, ex-CIO, ex-whatever you want he did type of
guy. So, he knowledgeable compares how difficult it used to be to code, and
how power his GUI-driven code is now. 

He regularly calls me over to his workstation: "Hey, Hank! You gotta see
this!" And he shows me an elegant piece of code that uses object technology
to eliminate hundreds of lines of code. Neat. He's good.

The kicker is that invariably after he shows me the execution of that elegant
piece of code, the PC rewards him by giving him a General Protection Fault.

Hank Heath
Vice President
Medco Systems, Inc.
Y2K Project Management
3 Eves Dr
Suite 304
Marlton, NJ 08053
ph: 215-751-5913
fax: 609-596-8650
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