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  • July 3, 2011 at 4:39 pm

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    bitbucket-25253 (7/3/2011)

    Jeff Moden

    None of these restrictions or limitations are new to us old farts. The only real difference that I can see between the Cloud and an old IBM Mainframe is that you couldn't get to the Mainframe over the internet (there was no internet back then),

    Ah Jeff the good days, but remember back then we could always save those decks of punched cards, and thus save our data.

    My favorite was the card sorter especially at crunch time. So many people would either set the sort column incorrectly, stack the cards in the wrong "bin" order, or drop the cards! We had a rule... if you didn't sort correctly or dropped the cards, you lost your place and the next person was up. It always put me ahead of the game because I always did it right and I never dropped the cards. 😀

    --Jeff Moden

    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

    Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

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