Re: Cobol Can Do It Better?!
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Date: 11/21/03
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Date: 21 Nov 2003 05:23:08 -0500
In article <20031120220039.29149.00000731@mb-m10.aol.com>,
YukonMama <yukonmama@aol.com> wrote:
[snip]
>Things like 'mainframe is going away' 'we can do it faster' (from
>the head EDI guy - more on him later) were bantied about until I just figured
>I'd shut up and let them hang themselves.
Hmmmm... the mainframe is going away sounds like an Executive Decision, it
is always nice to get verification on those. Doing it faster is also a
possibility... perhaps a timed trial would be in order, along with
considerations about standardising the system (after all... ASM coding can
'do it faster' than COBOL but one might not want to rely on such things.
[snip]
>Cobol can parse it out
>the way the user needs it.
>
>So we peons sat down and determined that Cobol could do it better and I believe
>this should be done in the next day or so. Seems that the other division's
>purchase orders have a few 'quirks' in them that I need to code for. Nothing
>Cobol can't handle :).
Not only the tool but the one who wields it... it might be wise to sling
together a memo and email it to *everyone* who was in the meeting
informing folks that in the absence of 'the EDI guy' and based on the
technical evaluation of his superior a COBOL-based solution (which took
into consideration the hitherto-undiscussed quirks) was decided-upon,
spec'd, coded, tested and successfully implemented in (n) hours... and
that he should please be so kind as to inform you as to how this period of
time is so excessive as compared to his vauntedly 'faster' method.
DD
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