RE: Writing for fun, was RE: SQL Performance Question

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: rob@dekko.com
>
> While you raised some good points, I think that many people on this list
> have at least tried something new on the company nickle without writing up
> a formal education plan.  For example, if someone shows you a new RPG op
> code do you have to request additional formal training just to try it out?
>  Most people would hate working for a company like that.

Depends on how many nickels.  Zak says it only took him half an hour, and it
was on his own time.  That's perfectly acceptable.  If it was a week on
company time, I'd fire the person doing the "research".  MAYBE reprimand
them if it was an honest first time mistake.  Anything else is resume
padding.


> Now there was the time that someone spent a few days trying to load
> something that we put the brakes on.  Been several years.  Might have even
> been the OS/2 version of SSA's tool.

The Assistants were an extra cost product.  I doubt you spent the extra
money to "try" the Assistants.  Besides, I knew every Assistant client.  You
weren't one.  I'd have remembered you.

You could be talking about AS/SET.  That was a different group.  Those guys
believed in trying out new things - LOTS of learning curve - then putting
them into production on the fly without testing them in a production
environment, and not adhering to any reasonable standards.  One programmer
could barely read another programmer's code.  Thus was born AS/SET.

Joe