In <105438.15379...@web161401.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>, on 05/15/2011 at 09:47 PM, Ed Gould <ps2...@yahoo.com> said:
>People write in whole complete sentences for a complete thought >to be conveyed. Some people do, sometimes. Some people sometimes write perfectly understandable sentence fragments. >Take as an example (sorry do not >have the number off the top of my head). I believe its called the >MVS COBOL conversion guide (or something close) is close to what I >am trying to convey here. They manage to take a simple statement >and turn into a legalize length document that you truly have to be >a lawyer to understand. If you didn't understand it, how do you know that it is equivalent to a simple statement? I agree that there is verbose text in some manuals, but there are also cases where what the text describes is complex and a shorter description would be flat wrong. >Some of the replies on here are a lot like that. Certainly. But have you correctly determined which are which? I'd rather wade through complex text than make a programming error as the result of believing an overly simplistic post. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html