It also means that you can move to a new employer more easily, or that your
company can more easily hire staff, without bearing so much of the cost of
teaching them anything new and useful. It's a mixed blessing. In fact, I
would suggest that it is an illusion. It's too easy for developers to
continue to use a subset of the features available, rather than continuing
to learn the rest of the feature set. So a COBOL programmer may write their
own inline PERFORM to find an element in an array, rather than learning to
use SEARCH, for instance. "Standard" is after all a synonym for average, and
for status quo. But mediocrity takes a lot less time, and most people won't
notice the difference until it's too late.
http://www.despair.com/med24x30prin.html

Greg Stigers
http://www.cgiusa.com
where would you rather be today?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John R. Wolff [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 11:24 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: HP3000 and HP-UX
<snip>
> (By the way, this is a 2
> way street  --  I can move more easily to your competitor
> also.)  Standards
> are of much less interest to an installed base set of
> customers who are
> just trying to run their businesses with minimum disruption
> and cost.
<snip>

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