Re: Dasmussen's response to my GOTO soapbox....

["Charles Barnard" <wizodd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Date:          Tue, 22 Jul 1997 00:58:20 -0400 (EDT)
<snip>

> Actually, we've probably spent a good deal MORE time talking about Y2K here
> than about GOTO.  I seem to recall ad nauseum discussions on tools,
> techniques, and compliant vendor releases.

Actually, I was refering to the past 20 years of ignoring th problem 
of Y2K - I first ran into date problems in 1975...

< snip>

> DOES sound like a bad generator, which one are you using?

Code I refer to was generated both by ASSET & SYNON (albeit a year or 
two ago...)

> databases that are hard-coded at the application level.  As for "Huh, I don't
> understand", I'd rather the computer tell me that than make an assumption
> like "Oh, you meant to delete all the files in the production environment --
> I can handle that!".

Obviously, none of us would prefer that the machine 'guess" what we 
wanted (although, I had a boss who required me to do just that in 
BPCS regarding which inventory locations inventory had been taken 
from for shop orders....)

But there is no reason that the machine cannot return a list of 
possible choices, based upon standard text error processing (i.e. 
transpositions, shifts, WRK when you meant DSP & the like....)



Charles Barnard
Wizard of Odd
wizodd@netnet.net
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