Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1501

I am sure every non-word user has had the same experience. It happened to me, when I received an offer letter from a potential employer, that included aside from my own offer, the diffs between it and the previous offer.

I am sure that the HR guy who was writing these letters started with the most recent, and just cut-out the name, position, starting salary and stock grant numbers, filled in the new ones, and hit send.

I called him up, and said, "I will be formally accepting your offer. I also hope that Jane Doe accepts her offer, but don't you think that $43,000 is kinda low for the starting salary?" He was shocked. "Don't worry -- this is between you and mean. And Jane. Maybe those know something you don't -- and me getting a copy of Jane's letter in with my own is one of those reasons we give you this advice...."

I went on to discuss with him how to avoid the effect he had experienced with me -- and gave him food for thought: Think of all the times in the past year you have done this -- and that other front-office people have done it. You think that none of those correspondents have people at least as clever as I am in their operations?

-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Computer software consists of only two components: ones and zeros, in roughly equal proportions. All that is required is to sort them into the correct order.