> Promote all employees in pay grade A to pay grade B. Then promote all > employees in pay grade B to pay grade C. These days, more likely "Rightsize all employees in pay grade C to pay grade B. Then rightsize all employees in pay grade B to pay grade A."
Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Friday, August 09, 2013 10:12 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Why computer languages need to have specific parsing rules and exact semantics. On Fri, 9 Aug 2013 06:59:36 -0500, John McKown wrote: > >Wife: Go to the store and buy a quart of milk. If they have avocados, >get six. >Husband: OK >Husband comes back with 6 quarts of milk >Wife: What? Why did you get 6 quarts of milk? >Husband: They had avocados. > >Obviously the husband is a systems programmer. And the wife is an end user. > I believe it was Phil Payne who once told the story of being given an assignment: Promote all employees in pay grade A to pay grade B. Then promote all employees in pay grade B to pay grade C. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
