Amen, Chris. Great point. I remember a colleague of mine, at IBM, in 1972, new to her job in the programming center, as I was in the the Project Office, who told me: there is so much stuff left in the operating system ( her department was the FLIHs, the first level interrupt handlers) from olden days, why don't "they" just get rid of it???
Stuff left for compatibility, etc. So long ago, and I remember that lunch time conversation with Carol S. Made an impression on me, evidently. I didn't have as good a response as I would have later, but... Kinda dormant, until you reminded me. Thanks! Dan Sent from my iPad > On Jan 6, 2014, at 6:19 PM, Chris Hoelscher <[email protected]> wrote: > > In my experience, when the "kids" suggest their idea is better than the old > fart's way of doing things, they MAY be right, but what they do not take in > to account is the massive amount of time/effort/$$$ to get form the "old > ways" to their "perfect way" > > I am reminded of when in 1975 I was taking computer programming classes as a > freshman at "The" Ohio State University (anyone else remember Baker Hall?) - > my PL/I instructor was quite certain that by 1980 PL/I would replace both > COBOL and FORTRAN as the dominant computer programming language - and had > there been no investment to that point in computer code, he MIGHT (I repeat > MIGHT) have been right - but he (in my opinion) failed to consider (as in the > discussion above) what it would cost to UNDO what had accumulated before we > could move forward with the NEW idea ..... > Told me: > Chris hoelscher > Technology Architect | Database Infrastructure Services > Technology Solution Services > > 123 East Main Street |Louisville, KY 40202 > [email protected] > Humana.com > (502) 476-2538 – office > (502) 714-8615 - blackberry > Keeping CAS and Metavance safe for all HUMANAty > > > The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to > which it is addressed > and may contain CONFIDENTIAL material. If you receive this > material/information in error, > please contact the sender and delete or destroy the material/information. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
