Re: Productivity


"Frank Swarbrick" <Frank.Swarbrick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Pete Dashwood<dashwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 12/27/06 3:40 AM >>>
"Frank Swarbrick" <infocat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'm also still waiting for your comments on the nested perform I posted
sample code for, in response to your comment about that...

Am I wasting my time here? :-)

Umm, maybe. I didn't know I was supposed to respond. I was only
commenting
that I had never used it; not that it was not a useful thing to have.

No Frank, what prompted me to post a comprehensive example, with an
explanation, was your comment:

(From your post in the 'Looking for sample code' thread dated 14th December,
2006)

"For better or for worse I don't think I've ever written a complex perform
statement such as that. And I'm not sure I'd ever want to! :-)"

The last sentence certainly implies it is NOT a useful thing to have and, as
I believe you are involved in teaching people COBOL (I may have confused you
with someone else.. if you're not responsible for instructing others then it
doesn't really matter and I wouldn't have taken the time to post), I thought
some explanation/clarification from me might be in order.

I guess I'm sensitive about powerful constructs being banned on sites
(having worked in many places where they are) simply because people don't
take the trouble to understand how they work. When teachers start dismissing
them too ... well, I was hoping to get you to look again.

Of course you are not required to respond; I just hoped that you would. (My
post was in response to yours).

Thanks for the clarification about NetExpress COBOL under VS 2005. It looks
very much as NetCOBOL for DotNET would.

There is no doubt that VS2005 is a superb development environment, whatever
language you are using

The questions are not relevant if VS2005 is used, as the DotNET framework
handles them.

Leaving all of that aside, I am coming to the conclusion that I AM wasting
my time here :-) As I'm on holiday at the moment I can afford to waste some,
but in the coming year I'll look to wind down my contributions here.

Pete.



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