Re: help with tables

In article <4oc6q3d8r1acm34uj2rf24mpo244djrq5n@xxxxxxx>,
Robert <no@xxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 10:43:08 +0000 (UTC), docdwarf@xxxxxxxxx () wrote:

[snip]

'The code-base was laid down in 1975, a decade before those features were
available... and the shop didn't start using those features until the Y2K
conversion in 1998 and nobody since then has authorised the budget to
rewrite and re-test it.'

I don't find it amusing. While and because old Cobolers were resisiting
change, the world abandoned Cobol.

Mr Wagner, I'm not sure what you're calling a 'Coboler'... but authorising
budget - budget for training in new features, programmer time for
rewriting code and overall time-and-resources for testing changes - is a
responsibility of Management.

DD

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