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

From: Doug Scott (dwscott_at_ieee.org)
Date: 01/02/04 

Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 17:02:03 GMT

Howard,

> Batch is designed to do a lot of
> processing at an instant in time. (sure it takes longer
>
I'm not sure it does. With batch, you usually don't journalise updates
(you'd have a single dump/restore point for the entire batch run) so it
ought to be a lot quicker if you're selecting by the same criteria. 

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Doug
dwscott@ieee.org