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From
10/12/2000 22:48:48
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
 
 
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10/12/2000 19:41:32
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00451431
Message ID:
00451469
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>You're welcome, let me know if I can be of any more assistance. ; )

The guy's just too fast for us mortals :)

This reminds me of the much mentioned "Principle of Auntie Emma". She was just a janitor in a big-iron computing center, in charge of handing the printouts to users (in those days they had no terminals of their own, they did data entry to audio casettes and got the printouts couple of days later). Once a programmer came to his guru to ask about a problem he had, "well, you see, I got to do this, but can't, because of this... I mean, if I could use the... but... on the other hand... yes, that's it! Thank you!"

"Thank me for what? I didn't say a word. You could have told your story to Auntie Emma as well".

Morale of the story: just putting the problem into words and telling someone, often forces us to (re-)think it down a different path, and quite often this actually yields a solution.

back to same old

the first online autobiography, unfinished by design
What, me reckless? I'm full of recks!
Balkans, eh? Count them.
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