Re: Move 'ABC' to Numeric?

["Alan E." <steelville@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve, etal,

My code has had good reviews, but they'd never pay the hours
for two people.

At one place the MIS Director said they had one programmer
there that took care of one problem once, now get this, by
*hard-coding* the actual numbers on a report that they told
him the report totals were supposed to balance to.

- Alan


| Once, when I was working at a client in the Dallas area, a
JDE _employee_
| came in to fix a problem with the invoice print program.
Later, when the
| program was still working incorrectly, I looked at the
mods he made. Instead
| of fixing the real problem, he had coded a GOTO around a
block of code so
| that the program would not bomb.
|
| This speaks to the need of having a systematic way of
QA'ing programs.  In
| college I was taught the structured methodology and using
peer reviews, the
| "ego-less" approach to reviewing code.  Too often the
mavericks slip things
| in the code that should be caught _before_ the program
gets into production.
|
| Steve