I don't! If someone seems to be starting a conversation in email, I email them to tell them to call me if they want to talk. After that, I ignore any emails. Nothing irritates me more than replying to an email, turning around to do work in some other area, getting an email back, having to reply, turning around to do work, etc. :mad: Once or twice is OK, otherwise use the phone! Tony

Write your documentation first, then make the code live up to it. You accomplish three things: 1) you know when the project's finished (and so do your customers), 2) you won't leave anything out and 3) you give the customer a chance up front to make sure you understood what (s)he wanted.

Visual Studio uses .vbproj and other similar extensions for some of their files. The origination comes from the need to conserve disk space and memory. Plus, DEC had a form of character storage called Radix50 which stored 3 characters in one 16-bit word, which made it convenient to hold the extension (and the file name, too). It's just a legacy thing. There really is no more need for it. Unix uses the form (such as .o for object file or .c for C source code) in some cases, but it does not constitute an extension. It is all just part of the file name.

I was (and still am) an electronics technician. I got roped into programming in 1973 when no one else wanted to do it! I would probably be fixing them.

Bunch of children! Digital Equipment Corporation PDP 11/40 / Assembler - had 64 kB memory and 128 kb (yes Bytes) hard drive. and IBM 360 / Fortran and others (1973)