Re: Date compare Best Practices

[Simon Coulter <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday, February 27, 2004, at 11:05  AM, Joubert, Robert wrote:

> Dictionary?  I am DANG lucky to have email and stationery never mind
> Internet access!!!

What does Internet access have to do with it? I presume you are a 
programmer therefore you can be expected to write documentation 
therefore you should have a printed dictionary and thesaurus readily 
available. Or is that as unreasonable as expecting programmers to RTFM 
or have some glimmering into the workings of Floats or Endian-ness or 
ASCII vs. EBCDIC or data structures (as in lists, queues, collections, 
etc) or relative efficiency of sorts or any one of the dozen things I 
seem to be alone in expecting programmers (even so-called business 
programmers) to know? Perhaps the lack of access to suitable references 
is contributing to the appalling collapse of public language thus we 
end up with the drivel colloquially known as "Office Speak" which is 
not so far removed from Orwell's NewSpeak. Samuel Clemens supposedly 
made the following comments:
	http://www.wisdomquotes.com/001236.html

Mind you he didn't much care for consistent spelling so what can one 
say? Perhaps the attribution at 
http://www.ojohaven.com/fun/spelling.html is correct.

Now I really will stop.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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