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[email protected] (Barbara Nitz) writes: > My point of contention is that most of the 'programmers' (That's why I called > that 'clicking') don't care that their code is poor. My neighbour - a nice > young > man of 25, just finished his IT-education, and he is sharp! - stated the mind > set of those I call 'clickers': "If it works on my PC, I don't care if it has > a > performance problem in production. Someone else in the project hierarchy has > to fix it." (like the architect for the project or the customer). With this > attitude, about 99% of the 'ported' code is really bad for the environment it > is > supposed to run in productively. And the 1% that isn't so bad has a lot of > customer blood attached to it. recent references to billions spent (mostly by financial industry) on failed attempts to leverage large farms of PCs to implement "straight through transaction" processing in the 90s ... as alternative to (mostly) large cobol batch processing that ran in "overnight batch windows" doing things like settlement to complete online transactions that had occured during the day. the issue was that some number of them got past the pilot stage and into full scale deployment before the scale-up issues appeared on their horizon. it turns out that implementations were doing things that resulted in 100 times bloat in the implementation (compared to the batch cobol) ... totally swamping any anticipated through-put improvements from using large PC farms. http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#87 Cleaning Up Spaghetti Code vs. Getting Rid of It http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#43 Business process re-engineering http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#14 Legacy clearing threat to OTC derivatives warns State Street http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#55 Cobol hits 50 and keeps counting http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#1 z/Journal Does it Again http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#2 z/Journal Does it Again -- 40+yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
