RE: RE: Not knowing

I don't entirely disagree, Michael...  Started a reply to a previous post,
but will probably hafta do SOME work today...

Thing is, I would venture there are some several hundreds of people on this
list who DO know every DDS keyword involved in subfiles, and the subtleties.
The reason being.. debugging.  (Both as method to learn, and desire to
avoid!)


I believe that I, and many others on this list, would STRONGLY disagree with
this sentiment:  "on the whole I think a case can be made that the world in
general has benefitted from the fact that so many people can now use
computers for so many things -- in large part because of programmers who
knew just enough to get by".

Many would view this as the PROBLEM with software production today.

The old saw, "There's never enough time to do it right, but always seems to
be enough time to go back and fix it" is, unfortunately, all too easy...
KISS gets a lot of lip service, imv...

Again, jmnsho.





| [mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Michael Naughton
| Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 10:59 AM
| To: midrange-l@midrange.com
| Subject: Re: RE: Not knowing
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| Um, how many people on this list use subfiles (raise your hands, please)?

<snip some good comments, some not, imnsho>