RE: [Re: RPGILE V4.3 Gotcha]

[Colin Williams <Williamsc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Oooooooooooh!

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Joe Teff [mailto:jteff19@idt.net]
>Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 1999 9:16 PM
>To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
>Subject: Re: [Re: RPGILE V4.3 Gotcha]
>
>
>>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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