In <[email protected]>, on 12/17/2008
   at 07:55 AM, J R <[email protected]> said:

>With source code available, the PLMs were a distraction. 

Not the good ones, e.g, MVT Supervisor.

>If you looked at the code, you *knew* what was happening.  

Locally. The PLM (sometimes) explained how the modules fit together.

>Of course, when the code was no longer accessible, the PLM  was the next
>best thing. 

Except that I was used to looking at the code to clarify what the PLM said
:-(
 
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