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Advantages/disadvantages of DBCs
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27/05/2010 21:13:22
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
 
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27/05/2010 13:02:42
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP2
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01466065
Message ID:
01466328
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>Stupid users? Isn't that redundundant?

At Bata/Bolivia, where I worked, one of the programmers was having a telephone conversation with a user in a remote location. The user was supposed to do something in DOS, listing a directory or something, if I remember correctly. The user was instructed to type d, i, r, space, a, colon, ENTER. Nothing happened, at least, not in the sense of getting the desired result. After several attempts, the user asked, "I should type the two periods one right after the other, right?" - Note on Spanish: the colon is called "dos puntos", which might be translated as "two periods". Usually this is is considered to be generally known for people who speak Spanish.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
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