Common sense is of course both 1) highly desirable and 2) in short supply. That stipulated, the notion that all programming skills are commonsensical is a dubious one; and it has made much mischief.
A good programmer needs to know more and be abler than most people and, in my experience, most COBOL programmers, who are too often without formal analytic skills. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
