Re: Need help testing for date errors -- RPG400-L

I agree with you completely, mostly because I had asked this *exact* same 
question
about 3 months ago.  It is not that wasy to find unless you know to look for 
the test
op codes.

I had just e-mailed the answer to Bill directly, since I knew there were going 
to be
a lot of responses.

Some of the questions I ask can be thought of as being pretty stupid, but most 
of the
time I can figure out how to do something, I just want to know how to do it 
*better*.

I have been privately e-mailed in the past from people asking me questions 
directly,
just because they felt if they posted a question on the list someone might 
consider it
a "dumb" question.  IMO, that is a total shame, that someone doesn't feel free 
to ask
their questions for being flamed down.

Regards,

Jim Langston

Joe Giusto wrote:

> I know Bill and he is NOT a student.  I do know that he is the sole
> programmer in his shop and has recently begun using RPGIV.  I do not think
> at all that he is lazy (based on my experience of working with him).  Have
> you ever been overloaded with projects and just knew that there had to be a
> better way of doing something but just not have time to look it up?  I have
> been there, done that.  And before this list, on some of those occasions,
> have coded the long way around something because of time constraints.  I
> tell my self that when I have time I will look it up/learn it and go back
> and fix the code, but we all know what happens to those ideas in a
> back-logged shop<g>.  While I can understand your frustration with some of
> the simpler questions (as you are probably a seasoned programmer), what
> would it have taken to give a one line answer like *MDY TEST(D) DATE ...
> Besides, who says it is cheating to use what ever resources are available to
> you to solve a problem?
> </RANT *OFF>
>
> My apologies to the list if this post is inappropriate.  Bill is a good
> friend and a good programmer.  Mostly self-taught and versed in several
> languages.  I know that I myself have asked simple questions when the answer
> should have been staring me in the face, and I am thankful for the list
> members that bear with me during those times and give up the answer anyway.
>
> Joe Giusto II
> Patuxent Publishing Company
> 10750 Little Patuxent Parkway
> Columbia, MD 21044

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