>In order to do some necessary things, some smart programmers wrote some >hard-to-maintain code using tricks.
Would a weak programmer even know how to do it? >Once they got a CoBOL compiler, that wasn't needed anymore. >With that exception, I strongly agree with you that the best programmers >created the easiest to maintain code. Easy is a relative term. If there is no other way to do it, it is the easiest to maintain. A weak programmer cannot overcome limitations of languages. - Too busy driving to stop for gas! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html

