the lowest common denominator-- RE: I hate Activation Groups....

You need to get out more. <g>

Seriously, I think you might be surprised by the number of people who've
been employed in IBM midrange shops for more than ten years who stopped
learning after about six months.  I suspect you mostly see people who think
programming is interesting.

It's related to the thing about calculating the IQ of a mob.  MobIQ =
min(memberIQ)/mobsize

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon.Paris@hal.it [mailto:Jon.Paris@hal.it]
> Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 9:50 AM
> To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: I hate Activation Groups....
> 
> 
> 
>  >> That's exactly why they're more or less forbidden.  
> Management decided
> that it was easier to insure that it would never happen, than 
> trying to
> teach people how to avoid the cursor surprise.  It's the same 
> reasoning
> that forbids any new techniques on the basis that no one will 
> understand
> them.
> 
>  >> Kind of ties in with your "good enough" rant.
> 
> I can never understand this attitude - and many of the same 
> people don't
> seem to have a problem with using the latest PC stuff - maybe 
> because they
> are so used to that failing that a failure with new stuff is 
> no worse than
> a failure with old!
> 
> Anyone who calls themselves an iSeries professional shouldn't have a
> problem with shared ODPs should they?  Unless they've only 
> been in the job
> about a year or so anyway.  Maybe I'm being too harsh.
> 
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