> Hello Dave,
> 
> Good Rant.  And I agree on all your points.
> I think that you need to have one more point for
> problems though.
> 
> 4) no Standards for PC programmers.  
> 

Ed,
 In my rush that one escaped me. Having spent nearly
10 years looking after an X.25 networking package
written almost entirely in Fortran 77 I should have
got that one.

 I guess that it proves two things. Firstly that if
pushed you can use almost any language to do any thing
(in those days there were many machines without a "C"
compiler). If we could write what we did in Fortran I
am sure that you could do it Visual Basic. However it
worked because we followed standards and had good
documentation. Possibly not optimal, butr it worked. 

> Ed Martin 
> Aultman Health Foundation
> 330-588-4723
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 

Dave.
> ext. 40441


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