Hi Nadya,

Sorry for jumping in.

>Hi Nancy,
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>It's a quite complicated matter is dealing with persons and programs. For instance, I was looking for my colleague's code in the application, what was recently turned to me. She used this approach, when she needed to determine, if the passed string is in a table, she scanned the table checking for occurance. I replaced this code with seek function and just asked her precisely:
>BTW, in address standardization: why do you scan StSuffix and StrtDirnl tables instead of divide streets by words and check each word against this table, applying some additional rules, if needed? It should work much faster and the algorithms would be clear.
>Now I have to re-write these methods by myself.

In sutuation like this you should discus a code not a person and do it in a positive manner. You could say to her, you know there is a code such and such that we can improve by changing LOCATE to seek. What do you think about it?
Now you are working together not agains each other.

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>Of course, I didn't get any answer, but my manager came to my desk and tried to explain, that it's not pollite to show, that somebody makes something "stupid". Well, if I see, that the code is not efficient enough, why I can not tell the person about its unefficiency? Why it's considered as an offense?

I have to agree with your boss on that. See above.

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>I'm afraid, I didn't make freinds making these comments, but I could not understand one simple thing: it's obviously, that the code is not efficient. Why she didn't change it by herself during these two years?
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