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: 01/03/04 

Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2004 13:23:07 GMT

Peter,

> The current trends are for processing power to increase and transaction
> costs to decrease. I am speculating on a FUTURE, not what is current.

Sure. We're doing now what we couldn't do in the past. It still requires
non-zero resource utilisation. 

---
Doug
dwscott@ieee.org

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