RE: RE: "Webulating" RPG

[Bob Crothers <bcrothers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

-----Original Message-----
From:   Buck Calabro [SMTP:mcalabro@commsoft.net]
Sent:   Thursday, February 26, 1998 11:45 AM
To:     'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
Subject:        Re:RE: "Webulating" RPG

>Yes you can be productive using SEU, but you can be MUCH MORE
>productive using Code/400.

You know that.  *I* know that.  Prove it to the guy that signs 
the check.

But I am one of the guys who signs the checks.  And I have 
signed this one.  Looking for a job in Indy anybody? <g>

<snip>

You know, this isn't as silly as it sounds.  Even with SEU, 
you'd
be amazed at the productivity you can recover when the novice 
learns
that the cursor wraps along all four sides of the screen.  Or 
that TAB
is a lot faster than arrow keys to move to input capable fields.
Keyboarding should be the FIRST thing we learn, alas, it's often 
the
last.  Do you have your terminal emulator set up to use the 
standard
Win "cut/paste" keys?  Saves oodles of time instead of taking my
hands off the keyboard, finding the mouse, pointing to the 
"copy" icon,
going back to the kbd, inserting my blank line, going back to 
the mouse
and pointing to the "paste" icon....  Stupid example?  Maybe. 
 Look around
your shop sometime to see how many people (including your fellow
programmers) use inefficient keyboarding...

Actualy, I wasn't being silly.  I was dead serious.  I have 
shoved more than one juniour programer asside cause it was to 
painfull watching his/her hunt & pecking!

Buck Calabro
Commsoft, Albany, NY


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