Charles Mills wrote:
It's interesting, the tail wagging the dog, isn't it: big corporate software
imitating free software.
I came from microcomputers to Unix servers and eventually to mainframe VM and
OS390 in the 1990's
It was amazing to see mature code, I'd never seen 35-year-old code before.
Mainframe software systems seem to me to be like those layered liqueurs, they keep adding a new color on top. It never
ends.
--
Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of
www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe
www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. - Carl Sagan
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