----- Original Message ----- From: "David Boyes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 1:09 PM Subject: Re: Perpetuating Myths about the zSeries
> > On Windows this > > results in the famous general protection fault, on Unix it > > results in the famous segmentation fault, and on z/OS it is > > the famous SOC4. I wonder if there isn't a better way to > > deal with this problem then just aborting the program. Users > > find this problem really annoying. > > This is programmer error -- the hardware is doing exactly what it should do, > methinks. Correcting the developers usually helps, although that's much > harder. I've yet to find a programming language or toolset that doesn't do > exactly what the programmer tells it to do, even if it's stupid...8-) So... you haven't used VBScript? Perhaps it barely qualifies as a programming language, but just today I wrote a script to delete a file, then create a new one with the same name. The new one has the same "DateCreated" as the file that was deleted. Unless you wait "long enough" between delete and create... then you get the current date/time. Working as "designed", says Microsoft. :-/ -- jcf
