Re: Display file puzzlement

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Have heard it said - it's better to ask forgiveness than to ask permission!!

At 07:53 AM 4/21/2008, you wrote:

> John McKee wrote:
> > Nobody there read any manuals at all.  It was discouraged by
> > the nitwit "manager".  Wastes too much time.
> >
> > John McKee
> >
> >
> Reminds me of the "manager" I had in '74 or '75.  I had just read some
> articles about some, relatively, new concepts - structured programming
> and top-down design.  Maintenance was just starting on a new system that
> a lot of novice programmers (including moi) had programmed, and it was a
> mess.  So I proposed studying and then using these techniques to develop
> more maintainable programs.  But the boss said we had too much backlog
> to waste our time on such nonsense (unproven concepts in his mind).  The
> lead programmer and I just went ahead and did it anyway.  The boss was
> clueless.
>
>
>         * Jerry C. Adams
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