Linas wrote...
>I always thought that it was weird that they do batch processing in
>the era of online, real-time, blah blah ... but I suppose banking and
>conservative practice go hand in hand ...
Just because we now have GUIs does not mean that CLIs are inherently rendered
useless for all purposes.
And just because we have event-driven programming does not mean that
batch processing has no purpose to exist.
If a bunch of "events" need to take place once a day, it really does make
sense to have them take place as a batch process. This means that you
can more readily validate that the process ran.
After all, we haven't eliminated the "batch" and "crontab" and "at" commands
in Linux...
I've got a batch process that crontab runs every couple of weeks at some
time early in the morning to insert 401(k) and stock purchase plan
transactions into my stock portfolio. I don't know what time, exactly,
that event *should* take place; this scheduling is certainly "good enough."
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