Re: Cobol Linear search Vs Perfrom Until

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Date: 07/18/04

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    In article <40fa6dde.577548960@news.optonline.net>,
    Robert Wagner <robert.deletethis@wagner.net> wrote:
    >Glenn Someone <dontspamme@whydoyouneedmyaddressspammers.com> wrote:
    >
    >>Exactly. IMO, what I've seen expressed in this thread are human
    >>nature issues and not coding, performance, or reliability issues.
    >
    >Bad programmers think they are addressing the machine, telling it to do this and
    >that. Good programmers picture their readership as humans who will have to
    >understand the code.

    Mr Wagner, in that a computer is *not* human what you are saying here is
    that 'good programmers generate a Noble Lie'... how very Platonic of you!

    DD

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