RE: Re: worst RPG ever seen?

Tom Liotta <qsrvbas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The main interactive account maintenance program would
> loop until all input errors were corrected. No big deal
> there... EXCEPT after all errors were gone, it would
> present the totally correct screen one last time and
> wait for the <Enter> key before writing the records to
> the database.
>
> Heh, and it presented that final screen with all the
> fields input-capable and there was NO validation on
> input. Hey, no need to check again, right? All errors
> were previously fixed.

Beautiful! Tom wins. Surely no-one can beat that.

It does remind me slightly of a letter I saw once in one of the trade
magazines from a contractor who was at a site where the standard was that
the user would have to confirm everything before the database was updated.
First a field would pop up with "Sure?" and the user would type "S" in
response. Then to be completely safe a second field would pop up with "Are
you sure?" and the user would have to type "Sure".

The letter writer reported that he had been fired from the job when it was
discovered in testing that he'd coded several programs with a third stage
where the program would ask "Are you absolutely certain?" and it would only
continue if the user responded "Yes, I'm bloody positive".

--
Dave...


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