As I sit here unsuccessfully rubbing the sleep from my eyes, I get a meeting request. This is “official” IT asking me to sit down and show them how my program works. Documentation and simple common sense be #@%&’d, they can’t figure it out. Maybe I should make a flow chart to make it look easy. I got a call yesterday from IT, telling me they don’t get it and could I “explain how do we open it, how does it work, and why do you use this function here?” A Microsoft Access DBA who doesn’t know how to bypass a database’s startup functions would not be a DBA much longer if I had anything to say about it. Fortunately for him, I don’t.
“How many levels of nesting?” What does this even mean? Nesting is when you put one function inside another – usually the same function. Do we count the first level, being the “parent” function? I would think you start counting the first time you technically nest (levels-1). This is all moot when you consider the fact that the code in question has no nesting whatsoever, so do we say 1 level or 0? The desired answer is unknowable without mind reading. It is a good thing I have so much mind reading experience.
