RE: What counts as technically slick?

["York, Albert" <albert.york@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry. I missed the sarcasm in your original email. There are still people
today who defend that as being a good way to convert dates.

Albert 


        -----Original Message-----
        From:   James W. Kilgore [SMTP:eMail@James-W-Kilgore.com]
        Sent:   Friday, April 06, 2001 9:49 AM
        To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
        Subject:        Re: What counts as technically slick?

        Al,

        That was my point.  At the time this was unleashed on the RPGII
        community, people said: 'Hey, that's pretty slick.  I can flip/flop
a
        date format in a single instruction.'

        Then the underlying hardware changed and suddenly something 'slick'
        became expensive.  Expensive in both the cost of computing
performance
        but also expensive in removing it.



        "York, Albert" wrote:
        > 
        > I'm not sure what your point is but this is a good example of what
NOT to
        > do.
        >
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