Re: page n of x -- RPG400-L

"If you can't find time to do something right, when are you going to find time 
to do it over?"

Any solution, no matter how cheap it is, is worthless if it doesn't work.  If 
my boss asks me to
print out Page x of y on every page, I am going to make sure that x and y are 
accurate.  Even if
this requires a little more cost.  Just becuase y is right 99.44% of the time 
doesn't mean that it's
good enough, IMO.

If you wish to change the specs, you better let your boss know you're doing so 
and get his/her
approval first ("I can make it 100% accurate, but it will require 3 days more 
programming.  Or
I can have it finished by tommorow, but sometimes it'll be wrong").  And see 
what they say.

Obviously, since it was asked to be put on the report, there is a business need 
for it, perhaps
just to make the customers happy.  How unhappy will they be when they spend 3 
hours looking
for page 101 of a report that only has 100 pages, because the last page says 
Page 100 of 101.

Regards,

Jim Langston

jpcarr@TREDEGAR.COM wrote:

> >Gary,
> >You and Dave Leland make a good point that the 2-pass approach is not 100%
> >accurate 100% of the time.
> >But you also wrote:
> >"The measure of a solution is not in terms of the effort required to code
> >the solution, but rather in terms of the robustness of the solution."
> >I'm afraid that is not correct.  The measure of a solution is in terms of
> >the *cost* of the solution, plain and simple.
> >
> ><SNIP>
> >
> >  jt
>
> Jeez,   Thanks jt,    I didn't have to say a thing.
>
> Some one once said,  ( Think J.Sears but not sure)  that "Simple
> Engineering is Great Engineering"
>
> If you have 2 Min print jobs and don't have the 12 hour runs,  my company
> would never spend the money for the more complicated solution.   If it is
> needed(Cost effective,  used by more than just one print program, etc, etc)
> I would definitely  go with a more modular, "Correct" solution,  If not,  I
> wouldn't  waste the time(the sentiment of my first post)  I have more
> important things to program these days than a neat routines that one or two
> programs in the shop may use once a month.   I wouldn't even download it
> for free.  It would be just one more thing we would have to "know what it
> is, where it is, How to use it,  when to use it, ........"
>
> Of course that's just my opinion.    Cost Justification is a Son of B#$%
> sometimes,   I do my play time at home on my 170.
>
> No offense intended,  Just my business reality.
> Respectfully
> John Carr
>
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