Greetings,

I was wondering if any one else is sometimes struck by the same thing:

Several times a week someone posts some flat-out bad code and/or asks
exceedingly basic questions. I have no problem with this. You have to
learn sometimes and asking questions is a good way to do so. What is
frightening is that you can sometimes infer that the code in question
is *important* to a company, and that potentially a lot of money is
riding on getting it right. I wonder how many companies have been
burned by buggy Excel programs written by people with little or no
programming background. In a sense VBA is too easy to write. With the
macro recorder and a bit of trial and error you can cobble together
something that seems to work (most of the time) without understanding
why it works or being able to anticipate when it might fail. No company
would dream of trusting C code written by a beginner, but many
apparantly trust equally unreliable VBA code.

Just a random thought.

-John Coleman