On Fri, 2011-09-16 at 01:41 +0800, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: > On 9/16/11, Always Learning <centos at u61.u22.net> wrote: > > > > select w1note from w1 where w1date = '$s5date' .... > This looks rather similar to what I am doing nowadays instead of > massive queries with sub-selects. Glad to see I'm not alone in this > direction. Hopefully this is a case of great minds think alike than > fools seldom differs! :D It is surprising that some 'computer people' lack a logical insight into their own work. One 'expert' wrote a single Cobol IF statement spanning 10 and a bit pages. 60 printed coding lines per page. He thought that was 'great'. I shuddered and thought it was stupid. At the same place, Schiphol Airport (Amsterdam), I was asked NOT to make my programmes user-friendly and to remove user-friendly features from my programmes because "If the users see them, they will ask us to put your user-friendly improvements in our programmes". The applications I wrote carried data from one screen to the next screen and saved the worker having to re-enter the data. NVLS (the airport authority) staff wanted their old system retained - the user having to copy onto a piece of paper the essential data and type it in on the next screen. There was I thinking I had done a good job and the next minute I was told to programme like a moron. Sometimes well-paid contract work can make the contractor feel like a prostitute. Does one object to utter stupidity and walk-out or abandon one's principals and stay ? Paul.