Re: (not entirely...) OT: OPINION... chicken entrails, runic stones, and crystal balls... WAS CoBOL moved to OO

From: Howard Brazee (howard_at_brazee.net)
Date: 01/02/04 

Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 16:34:16 GMT

On 1-Jan-2004, "Peter E.C. Dashwood" <dashwood@enternet.co.nz> wrote:

> OK, here's how...
>
> Modern transaction systems can be triggered to fire off transactions at any
> time you want.
>
> It doesn't have to be "Batch" as we currently understand it. What you
> suggest is "cyclic" ("time-not-transaction" based) is simply a transaction
> that must occur at a certain time.

How do we currently understand "Batch"?

If a complex program is triggered and runs without interaction - that's not
batch as we currently understand it?

Maybe a better question is who's "we"?