>>Unless the 'powers that be' prefer it the long way! :o) It brings home the paycheck but it does make for some poor habits. :0)
>Tracy,
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>Sounds like the "powers that be" are what I call, "Five day wonders". They take a seminar for five days and think they have all the answers. < Bzzzt > Sorry, wrong answer. Fundamentally, programming is not about language. It's about solving problems. Anyone who says otherwise doesn't know what they're talking about.

Right on the money, Geo. I have long considered programming a general art of problem solving. And the analytic state of mind, and the mental habits that it creates, work even when one is away from keyboard. I've caught myself solving ordinary problems in ways I wouldn't have imagined the day before, just because I've solved them as if they were software problems.

Some of the details on our old house back home, and the one we're remodeling now, may look weird, but they work. They are solutions.