On Sat, 30 Jun 2012 20:43:31 +0000 David Stokes <[email protected]> wrote:
:>Ah, 1960 Look&Feel. Punched cards and line printer output I'd assume. Lot of that still around. Exemplary use of gratuitous insults combined with sheer nonsense, btw. Crackpot realism, oh come on. It is the difference between those that live on high and would dictate vs. us plebes who need to think dollar and cents, and cannot simply change code without a business case. :>-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- :>Von: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von John Gilmore :>Gesendet: Samstag, 30. Juni 2012 20:20 :>An: [email protected] :>Betreff: Re: Detecting RMODE at assembly time :> :>Mr Siegel and I often disagree. His substantial agreement with one of :>my positions would indeed cause me to reconsider it. :> :>His comment :> :><begin extract> :>t has been my experience that inhouse developed software will not be :>converted for technology only reasons. There must be a good solid :>business case to justify this type of project. :></end extract> :> :>is a predictable, stereotyped response to my post. It is :>nevertheless of some exemplary interest as a textbook example of what :>C Wright Mills called crackpot realism. :> :>I have much, too much, experience with these AMODE(24) programs that :>"run important business applications just fine". :> :>To their users they have the drab look and feel of circa-1960 :>applications; their maintenance costs are such that the shops that use :>them devote more than half of their IT budgets to just keeping them :>running; experience with them contributes largely to the common view :>that the mainframe is an obsolete platform. :> :>They seldom exhibit an explicit design. Instead they have grown ad :>hoc over many years. They use obsolete compile-time bound, :>move-orient[at]ed, synchronous programming technology. Etc., etc. :>The litany is long and damning. They are, in a word, technologically :>indefensible; and many of them were so when they first came into use. :> :>What amuses me, if that is the right word, is that it is just these :>people who are working the destruction of the milieux they cherish. :> :>John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA -- Binyamin Dissen <[email protected]> http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. I very rarely bother responding to challenge/response systems, especially those from irresponsible companies.
