Re: Revisiting an Old Prejudice: READ INTO/WRITE FROM

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Date: 08/09/04

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    In article <10hdso774o5b150@corp.supernews.com>,
    Rick Smith <ricksmith@mfi.net> wrote:
    >
    ><docdwarf@panix.com> wrote in message news:cf684e$16l$1@panix5.panix.com...
    >> In article <10hd3528rjphtad@corp.supernews.com>,
    >> Rick Smith <ricksmith@mfi.net> wrote:
    >> >
    >> ><docdwarf@panix.com> wrote in message
    >news:cf5mrl$c4p$1@panix5.panix.com...
    >>
    >> [snip]
    >>
    >> >> Mr Smith, I have no familiarity whatsoever with the 'tenor' of COBOL;
    >> >> while what 'seems' can be dependent on who is observing what I asked is a
    >> >> matter of fact: 'What is more likely to Go Wrong by holding to this
    >> >> 'standard'?'
    >> >
    >> >Mr Dwarf, as I stated above, 'I cannot identify that which 'is more likely
    >> >to
    >> >GoWrong''.
    >>
    >> Many thanks, Mr Smith, for addressing the question I asked in so direct a
    >> fashion.
    >>
    >> >The reason being, in part, that I have no experience from which
    >> >to make such an identification. I have never used the practice you described
    >> >and I do not recall ever having seen it used.
    >>
    >> Thanks again, Mr Smith, for being so forthright about the amount of
    >> familiarity you have with the subject about which I am inquiring; it is
    >> good to be able to know about the experiences one has had which go into a
    >> public pronouncement.
    >
    >You are most welcome, Mr Dwarf. It is the comparative 'more likely'
    >and the condition 'by holding to this 'standard'' that provides the
    >difficulty.

    Well, Mr Smith... if it were easy then I might not have felt the need to
    make this inquiry to so august a forum as this, no?

    >To give an example of a 'What', one must have experience of both.

    That could be why I structured the query as I did, Mr Smith; I related
    what I had been taught and (as a result of this teaching) practised, along
    with a half-remembered situation a few decades old on a platform which is
    not the most common... and asked what others had learned and experienced.

    DD

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