Re: COBOL "non-myth" confirmed - Index and subscripts (MF on Windows)

docdwarf@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

If the system gets used then the amount of data going through it may
increase... and, similarly to a vehicle, one will have to decide at
which point one puts aside the old three-speed Humber with
handlebar-basket - which was most suitable for moving one'sself
around during one's earlier years - and replaces it with a vehicle
which can carry one'sself, one's spouse and (n) children... perhaps a
motorscooter (which in some places, eg Southeast Asian countries, are
made to carry all that and more), perhaps an automobile of some sort,
perhaps a van, etc.

From "Systemantics:"

"A working large system is invariably found to have evolved from a working
smaller system. A large system designed from scratch will not work and
cannot be made to work."


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