RE: Performance Review

Joel,
Your point is perfect.  Mainstream is going to be different at every shop.
If your mainstream is lower than the most current T.S. stuff, what are you
going to do, retrain or replace everyone?  Most companies that I am familiar
with (mid-size manufacturers) couldn't see the business need in either of
those options. You learn as much as the company environment allows and if
the company is restrictive via education budgets, old school thinking or
just plain old not needing VB apps or e-commerce sites or Java or whatever
it is you want to learn then you need to make your choices.

Ed Chabot
The Marlin Firearms Company
100 Kenna Drive
North Haven, CT 06473
(203)985-3254

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
[mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Joel Fritz
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 4:44 PM
To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
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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