Tom Conley wroter: <begin extract> All due respect, the cost to IBM's customer base for converting all COBOL executable libraries to PDSE will be measured in millions, if not billions, of US dollars. </end extract>
[With] all due respect again, this is empty rhetoric. The last Decennial Census, of 2010, yielded a US population aged 5-17 of 53,980,105. Let us now assume, conservatively, that the members of this group spent an arithmetic mean of US$1.00 per week on junk food in 2010. The 'alarming' result? This group spent US$2,806,965,460 on junk food in 2010! 'Almost' 3 billion dollars wasted! Etc., etc. The context-free large-numbers gambit is an old one, but it persuades only the already persuaded. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
