Re: Next generation COBOL?

On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 02:03:11 GMT, "James J. Gavan"
<jgavandeletethis@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>It was done manually, on the fly, as different orders were taken. As you
>can imagine, even somebody with the corporation's well being in sight,
>i.e. cost and efficiency, it was still much a hit and miss affair.

It would be interesting if such routing software was real-time, taking
into account traffic of the hour.

The Denver International Airport was designed with a baggage handler,
where people would put tags on bags, and they would be conveyed to
their destination airplane without human intervention. They spent a
fortune on it, and United tried using it for a while. It failed.
.

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