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

From: Judson McClendon (judmc_at_sunvaley0.com)
Date: 01/02/04 

Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 16:32:11 GMT

"Peter E.C. Dashwood" <dashwood@enternet.co.nz> wrote:
>
> Your ability to complicate essentially simple processes never ceases to
> astound me...

Your ability to overlook potential pitfalls astounds me... ;-)

> If something has "granularity" your real time system must recognise that.
> There are standard practices and procedures for doing this. You can adjust
> the "sample rate" or adjust the tolerances. The only time I ever encountered
> this was in control of an oil refinery; the application of it to Business is
> improbable, but, even if it were, the same techniques would solve the
> problem.

If that 'granularity' requires processing a million transactions at once,
you are going to have fun implementing that 'real time. :-)

Pete, you can't use your own experiences as the criteria for what can't
happen, only what can. It is a truism in science that you cannot prove a
negative. There are situations out there that you and I have never even
imagined. I'm saying "Be flexible, and allow for the fact that you can't
know everything." You are saying "I know everything I could possibly
need to know, and it can't happen." It is a good bet which position is
going to get steamrollered when the unforseen does happen. Just
because you or I haven't witnessed it is no proof that it can't happen in
circumstances we haven't encountered. I have seen programs run 20
years before bombing on a bug that was there all along. :-) 

-- 
Judson McClendon      judmc@sunvaley0.com (remove zero)
Sun Valley Systems     http://sunvaley.com
"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that
whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life."

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