On Wed, 4 Jul 2012 16:34:43 -0400, John Gilmore <[email protected]> wrote:
>In addition to the business case, there is a compelling design case >that can be made briefly. > >If something can be made bigger a symmetric facility that makes it >smaller must also be provided > >More generally, Garden-of-Eden states, those that once left cannot be >returned to, are always ugly and problematic. This dictum is so >elementary that lapses from it reflect inexperience and design >incompetence. > So sayeth John. :-) In a perfect world perhaps... How long have you been in this business? I can think of dozens of examples across this platform and other platforms where things can be enlarged by not made smaller... or at least not without jumping though a few hoops. I wouldn't say it is from "inexperience and design incompetence". (Boy, you sure insulted a lot of good developers with that statement) But you can keep dreaming. -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:[email protected] Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
