I also wonder about the "new culture" that is implied. We mainframers are often scolded and dissed because "we respond too slowly to requests". We have things like "change control" and "quality assurance". Things that are only now becoming important in the Windows mind-set. Now, when/if the Windows people ever become as "paranoid" about things as we are, will they continue to be so "quick to respond"? If we were given the option to rewrite major systems "from scratch" with no concern about the past and no fiddling "change control", how fast could we implement things? Perhaps not as fast as a Windows programmer. Mainly because Windows developers have a LOT of "plug and play" routines to do a number of things. Especially in the area of graphics and database access.
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