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

From: Peter E.C. Dashwood (dashwood_at_enternet.co.nz)
Date: 01/02/04 

Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 11:21:48 +1300

"Howard Brazee" <howard@brazee.net> wrote in message
news:bt46eg$rmo$1@peabody.colorado.edu...
>
> On 2-Jan-2004, Doug Scott <dwscott@ieee.org> wrote:
>
> > > 1. The purpose of producing a report is to provide "information".
> >
> > Yes, and printing it is only one way of presenting the data. Your
objection
> > seems to revolve around printing stuff, which I'll agree is largely
> > unnecessary. But the numbers still have to be crunched, and it's still
more
> > efficient to crunch monthly figures once and store them for later
retrieval
> > rather than crunch them whenever an individual wants to glance at them.
>
> And often more meaningful. Real-time doesn't give the same type of
picture as
> scheduled snapshots.
>

There is no reason why a real time system CAN'T produce scheduled snapshots.
The two are NOT mutually exclusive.

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Pete.