> any ethnicity but their own In my much younger days -- the first significant system I ever worked on -- I wrote a name-indexing scheme that assumed all surnames were at least three characters long. This was of course back in the day when we worried obsessively about bytes and CPU cycles.
Turned out that the client -- Blue Cross of Northern California -- had hundreds of customers surnamed Ng. Oops. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: Tuesday, March 1, 2022 10:46 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ZAD and C/C++ (was:: 2.5 Heads Up) Metz's Law of Anal Retentive Developers: "Never validate an input field unless you *KNOW* what the rules are: assumption, belief, habit, urban legends, etc., don't count!" The world is full of people that "validate" names without having a clue about any ethnicity but their own and e-mail addresses when the can't even spell RFC. "An e-mail address is invalid if it uses characters hat I don't use in mine." or some such idiocy. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
