new problem with FORM...(helllllp!!!) :)

[GCC Consulting]

Mark,

I agree with you.  filePro has an aging set of programmers whose collective
knowledge will disappear.

Too bad, it would help any new programmer.

Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting
  

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> Subject: Re: new problem with FORM...(helllllp!!!) :)
> 
> In the relative spacial/temporal region of Wed, Jul 11, 2007 
> at 03:51:01PM -0400, George Simon achieved the spontaneous 
> generation of the following:
> > 
> > It was totally pure luck, a shot in the dark, obviously I was only 
> > trying to waste some of your time. ;-)
> 
> *chuckle*  Well you failed miserably, since you were so close 
> to the actual source.  Run into this before, have we?
> 
> I wish we had a collective knowledge base for all the quirks 
> and workarounds all things fP.  I mean, we have the list 
> archives, but even if you have all the files (several of us 
> do), diving through them even with something like grepmail 
> yields way too much stuff; it's not organised enough.
> 
> We have the Survivor Series, but that shows you how to do 
> stuff correctly the first time, not necessarily how to 
> recover from something you never designed yourself, may not 
> often revisit, and that may be done either incorrectly or 
> just a bit oddly, where you have to massage it to make it 
> work a different way.
> 
> And the official docs have always been less than stellar, in 
> my experience.
> I had a 4.1 manual.  That's not of much help.
> 
> What we could use as a community is actually a database 
> organised by category (and further in, by function) that 
> gives problems and solutions that people have found.  An FAQ 
> isn't actually adequate for this task; it really wants a full 
> knowledge base.  What happens when the people that can answer 
> the question aren't reading that day/week/month, are on 
> vacation, got old and retired or died, etc.?  Their knowledge 
> isn't added to the problem at hand, even if they've 
> previously willingly shared it.
> 
> Just a thought to be put out there and ignored like all the 
> dozens of "bug tracker" and "wish list" type suggestions.  
> You know, we all have these thoughts now and again and voice 
> good ideas based on them, even though we all know full well 
> that nothing will ever come of them.  Just keeping with 
> tradition, here...
> 
> mark->
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