Re: Commenting sql

[R Bruce Hoffman <bruce.hoffman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

well, if we are commenting on the comments... he/she should use the SQL 
comment characters "--" not the RPG comment characters of "//". That way 
there are fewer surprises in this cut-and-paste world.


rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On your last paragraph...
>
> People do come around.  Eleven or twelve years ago I used to thrash one 
> employee for stretching the envelop a bit too far.  At the time he was 
> trying some things that I thought were a bit far out there at the time:
> - UIM.  Didn't help that it would occasionally die with some obscure error 
> that he couldn't duplicate and just accepted as an anomaly that was going 
> to sometimes happen.  (Who else was going to figure out UIM?)
> - CODE on OS/2.  After a week or so of not getting that to work it was 
> time to drop back, I thought.
> - Some third party product to do free format RPG as a precompiler.
> - Save while active.  No journalling.  No syncing.  MONMSG if the active 
> object still couldn't be backed up, just skip it.  (More common in earlier 
> releases.)  After a few consecutive nights of skipping the item master...
>
> He went from being an employee that sometimes presented DDS classes at 
> COMMON to quitting and going to the PC realm.  Last I knew he had a few 
> people working for him doing consulting.
>
> So, while you all may think I play it free and loose, others may not.
>
> Rob Berendt
>