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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: 28 Feb 2025 20:35:25 GMT
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On Fri, 28 Feb 2025 07:55:08 -0500, c186282 wrote:


>    I wrote an "unlimited sorting levels" function once for Revelation DB
>    ... pretty compact ... and not long afterwards I could NOT figure out
>    how it worked. It *did*
>    work though. Sometimes ya just get 'in the zone' when writing code
>    and maybe yer head can't get back there later on ?

One of the graybeards pointed out if you use every last bit of your 
creativity writing the code you'll be utterly screwed trying to debug it.

>    The 'configurable' stuff ... sometimes you get a sort of next-level
>    idea that SOUNDS great, but by the time you really get into it then
>    it WOULD be just easier to write one-off reports or whatever.

I was tasked with coming up with reporting software our clients could use 
by themselves. I looked a Jasper, Crystal, and the others and concluded 
you couldn't give any of them to a non-technical person with any hope of 
success. The only one I thought might be usable was Power BI and that is 
geared to graphics more than text reports.