Re: The joy of FORTRAN

On Fri, 4 Oct 2024 17:37:15 -0600, Louis Krupp wrote:

Good sales folks -- like the guy at the first company -- treat nerds
like human beings, and I always enjoyed working with them.

I worked with one sales person who was so notorious for submitting
enhancement requests that were so fractured and incomprehensible that
people collected the more humorous ones.

When I would track him down the truth was he had worked closely with the
client, had a good grasp on what they really wanted, and a pretty good
sense of what was possible. He would also work with the clients to find an
acceptable solution if what they wanted wasn't feasible. But the written
requests...