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Date   : Wed, 03 Nov 2010 08:54:23 +0000
From   : jgh@... (J.G.Harston)
Subject: No wonder CompSci graduates are unemployed

Rick Murray wrote:
> 1. Proprietary database, runs in DOS, saves in mangled weird unknown

Secretary: I'm going to be busy all afternoon because I've got
to go through the membership list splitting peoples' names into
firstname and surname.

Me: Save as CSV, BBC BASIC proggy that replaces the first space
with a comma, reload into Excel. Done in about 30 seconds.

JGH
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