On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 20:42:28 -0400 Gerhard Postpischil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:>Paul Gilmartin wrote: :>>> On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:27:02 +0200, Binyamin Dissen wrote: :>>> BPAM is not THAT unfriendly. :>> If it truly were "not THAT unfriendly" you'd not have troubled :>> to write a wrapper to hide the hostility from the programmer; :>> nor would numerous other inventors who independently replicated :>> your effort. :>I don't want to start a mud slinging contest, but the reason I :>use macros and subroutines is to isolate my code from system :>changes, and to free time to do useful work, rather than repeat :>the same drudge work over and over. Thus over the decades, some :>BPAM code has been replaced by DESERV, some LOCATE code by the :>catalog interface, and OBTAIN SEEK/SEARCH by CVAF Functions, etc. Or to perform common functions. Who hasn't written parsing macros/subroutines, message builders, etc.? -- Binyamin Dissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. I very rarely bother responding to challenge/response systems, especially those from irresponsible companies. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
