In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 02/03/2006
at 03:40 AM, Chris Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>At the time I tried to implement
>automation for the purposes of teaching it, basically the 80s, the
>idea of implementing automation by programmed analysis of 3270 data
>streams in order to extract key character strings constituted a
>degree of difficulty which reasonable people equated with impossible.
When reasonable people see something being done, they stop calling it
impossible. That is especially true when they see it being done at
multiple shops.
>Today, the situation may not be a lot different even if some tools
>are available to help with what I understand is called "screen
>scraping".
The tools have been available for years; around two decades.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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