RE: 2 d arrays was RE: Basic Cobol

I think it's something like Gresham's law. <g>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon.Paris@hal.it [mailto:Jon.Paris@hal.it]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 11:30 AM
> To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: 2 d arrays was RE: Basic Cobol
> 
> 
> 
>  >> I asked that the price be given some consideration when ranking
> results.
> 
> Why?  That would defeat the purpose of the price being there 
> at all.  The
> idea behind the price is that it reflects the resource required to
> implement the function relative to the development resource 
> available for
> the complete release.
> 
> Previous methods of ranking the desirability of new features did not
> account for the effort needed to implement them.  Despite views to the
> contrary, Toronto don't have unlimited resources any more 
> than you do.  We
> started doing it this way to force people to realize that you 
> can't "have
> it all"  Sometimes you have to choose between features.  e.g. 
> Do you want
> one $20 feature or would you get more mileage from 5 $4 functions?
> 
> I think it works pretty well.
> 
> 
> 
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