Re: Setting A Hex Value in COBOL

In article <5c86etF2v8e0iU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Pete Dashwood <dashwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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In article <5c84r7F2vuab1U1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Pete Dashwood <dashwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[snip]

I posted because the OP was getting a lot of whys and wherefores when
really
all that was needed was a simple "yes" or "no".

How nice to learn that there are folks to whom what is 'really all that
was needed was...' is so readily apparent... but, to others, it may sound
like it goes nigh hand-in-hand with the 'all ya gotta do is...' syndrome.

You are the onl;y person I know who seems bothered by "all ya gotta do..."

I seem to recall a few folks here who share my initial distrust of a
Manager prefacing a solution with 'All ya gotta do is...' ... but I'm sure
they can speak for themselves.


Oversimplification can certainly be tedious, but each case should be judged
on its merits. There are times when "all ya gotta do" IS all you have to do.

Nothing is true at all times, including this statement.

If 'each case should be judged on its merits' then it might be concluded
that there is no value in applying the judgments from a different
situation to the current one... the universe becomes 'atomic' and
unpredictable; events are not continuous and experience becomes without
value.

'Well, it didn't work yesterday... but today's a different day, let's try
the same thing again!'

'Well, it worked yesterday... but today's a different day, let's try
something different!'

Your clients might expect something else from your efforts, Mr Dashwood,
but when it comes to writing code I've found that my clients tend to want
the same inputs run through the same code to produce the same results...
not 'each case' to be judged differently.


As I don't share your aversion to this phrase, for the reasons outlined
above, whether or not some other statement I made seems close to it, is of
no consequence to me whatsoever.

Hmmmmm... so if each person, by definition, has a different perspective
then to each person the perspective of the same situation is different...
and since every situation is to be judged on its own merits, not on the
merits that someone's perspective brings, there's no sense in considering
what anyone else might bring forward as a view.

DD

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