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On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 6:53 PM Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote: > > > any ethnicity but their own > > In my much younger days -- the first significant system I ever worked on -- > I wrote a name-indexing scheme that assumed all surnames were at least three > characters long. This was of course back in the day when we worried > obsessively about bytes and CPU cycles. > > Turned out that the client -- Blue Cross of Northern California -- had > hundreds of customers surnamed Ng. > > Oops. > > Charles > > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Seymour J Metz > Sent: Tuesday, March 1, 2022 10:46 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: ZAD and C/C++ (was:: 2.5 Heads Up) > > Metz's Law of Anal Retentive Developers: "Never validate an input field > unless you *KNOW* what the rules are: assumption, belief, habit, urban > legends, etc., don't count!" The world is full of people that "validate" > names without having a clue about any ethnicity but their own and e-mail > addresses when the can't even spell RFC. "An e-mail address is invalid if it > uses characters hat I don't use in mine." or some such idiocy. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
