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  • RE: Go Code

    Eric M Russell (11/11/2016)

    Despite working in IT as both a software developer and database administrator, I'm not a big fan of consumer gadgets or other technology that involves a lot...

    November 11, 2016 at 8:50 am

    #1911932

  • RE: Go Code

    manie (11/10/2016)

    Steve, I am sorry to say but I told you so in my (the) first post here. Some people are just plain rude and insulting. I, however, get your...

    November 11, 2016 at 7:58 am

    #1911913

  • RE: Go Code

    This entire discussion takes me back to the days before many of you were even born, the days when COBOL (for you young sprouts that was Common Business Oriented Language)....

    November 10, 2016 at 9:03 pm

    #1911822

  • RE: Go Code

    David.Poole (11/10/2016)

    I would rather people took a course in change management.

    • What is the problem I am trying to solve?
    • How big is the problem?
    • What impact does the problem have?

    • Is the problem...

    November 10, 2016 at 8:53 pm

    #1911820

  • RE: Go Code

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (11/10/2016)

    skeleton567 (11/10/2016)

    Sure, and more people should drive 18-wheelers on the interstates. I think I'll go over the airport and volunteer to fly a load...

    November 10, 2016 at 8:30 pm

    #1911819

  • RE: Go Code

    Sure, and more people should drive 18-wheelers on the interstates. I think I'll go over the airport and volunteer to fly a load of folks to Chicago today, too.

    Having...

    November 10, 2016 at 6:32 am

    #1911646

  • RE: A Load Of Old Cobols

    Michael J. Babcock (10/18/2016)

    Eric M Russell (10/18/2016)

    One thing that can be said for single tier development tools like MS Access and FoxPro, they allow a developer to quickly stove pipe...

    October 20, 2016 at 10:44 am

    #1907719

  • RE: A Load Of Old Cobols

    Jeff Moden (10/17/2016)

    skeleton567 (10/17/2016)

    David.Poole (10/17/2016)

    I was aghast to find an old Clipper app still being maintained, although it didn't really need much maintaining. For next to no investment it...

    October 17, 2016 at 8:23 pm

    #1907045

  • RE: A Load Of Old Cobols

    David.Poole (10/17/2016)

    I was aghast to find an old Clipper app still being maintained, although it didn't really need much maintaining. For next to no investment it was cheerfully generating...

    October 17, 2016 at 1:28 pm

    #1906992

  • RE: A Load Of Old Cobols

    Eric M Russell (10/17/2016)

    I occasionally encounter SQL that was originally coded back in the early '90s, even though it has been migrated to newer hardware and RDMS platforms several times...

    October 17, 2016 at 7:47 am

    #1906861

  • RE: A Load Of Old Cobols

    Two points about old code:

    I started writing COBOL back in 1969. In those days there seems to have been a fair demand for programmers and lots of them were...

    October 17, 2016 at 7:06 am

    #1906850

  • RE: Bingle is my Senior DBA

    MalD (10/9/2016)

    I'm a firm adherent to the principals contained in "Give the man a fish - feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and where...

    October 9, 2016 at 9:22 pm

    #1905583

  • RE: Bingle is my Senior DBA

    Well, I would be against any kind of rating decision by anyone, Steve included. I prefer to make my own evaluations without the precondition of anyone else.

    October 8, 2016 at 7:27 am

    #1905519

  • RE: A Software Warranty

    Gail Wanabee (10/6/2016)

    Steve:

    The best people to support code are the people that created it. No one else on the planet will know as much about it as they do, and...

    October 6, 2016 at 10:48 am

    #1905226

  • RE: A Software Warranty

    I spent my last twelve years before retiring with a company which during that time took on a major country-wide development project, first using a number of consultants and then...

    October 6, 2016 at 8:01 am

    #1905168

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