Re: [Re: RPGILE V4.3 Gotcha] -- RPG400-L

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>But what about the programmers that don't read this mailing list?  How are
>they going to know, until some number cruncher finds that things aren't
adding
>up like they are supposed to, looks at the data and sees inaccuracies all
over
>from decimals, and tell the programmer.
>Then the programmer will, hopefully, find out what is going on.  Then
he/she
>is going to have to explain to management why all their data is corrupt.
This
>is not that far fetched, do you agree?
>And will the answer IBM give them be, "you should of read the manual"?

Are you really trying to defend someone who writes a program that doesn't
even bother to "desk check" the calculations to see if they are correct?
Anyone that does that deserves to be spanked.

Joe Teff

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