On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 8:33 AM, Chase, John <jch...@ussco.com> wrote:
> > -----Original Message----- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Peter Hunkeler > > Sent: Friday, January 16, 2015 12:33 AM > > > > >>I just want to understand ?how?. > > >Why? > > > > > > I genrally say there is no stupid question, but this one is an > exception. There is no use in asking > > why someone wants to understand how something works. The OP stated that > he would like to get a deeper > > understanding. That should suffice to provide information if available > instead tring trying to get > > justification on the why. > > > > > > No offence intended, Elardus, but you just did answer in a similar way > to my query yesterday. I > > clearly stated that I'm curious to understand how OPEN works. I'm a > curious guy. > > I can think of no detriment to anybody who seeks to understand "how", or > even "why", something does as it does. Discerning the "how" should not be > inordinately difficult, but sometimes the "why" might be best answered with > Spock's "At the time, it seemed the logical thing to do." > IIRC, that was Spock's father's (Sarek) answer as to why he married Amanda (Spock's human mother). ref: http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Sarek > > -jc- > > -- While a transcendent vocabulary is laudable, one must be eternally careful so that the calculated objective of communication does not become ensconced in obscurity. In other words, eschew obfuscation. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
