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What's your point, Joe? You seem to have missed mine (and Dave x didn't even make an effort to get it). My point is that the overwhelming majority of code written today is a complete waste, because it's written for an economy of millions of fragmented economic actors. I cite Walmart to show that however many millions of lines of code they would need to rewrite in a y2k or currency changeover situation, those millions are qualitatively fewer than would need to be rewritten for a changeover involving thousands of isolated retailers. Institutions change computer systems every so often, and they have to do tremendous amounts of recoding and uploading and translating data and code. IT DOESN'T BANKRUPT THEM, anymore than currency changes do or y2k did. Read the pdf Louis sent (including especially the part about organizational changes impacting coding). And Louis et al., stop hiding your cowardice in the face of bourgeois politicians behind a surface understanding of the connection between the social and technological. On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 6:35 PM, Joseph Catron via Marxism < [email protected]> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 6:09 PM, dave x via Marxism < > [email protected]> wrote: > > "I dealt with that in my paper a couple decades ago but briefly: in the > > first stage of socialism you need computers to track prices of good, > > volumes of sales, etc. ALL OF WHICH REQUIRES NO MORE SOPHISTICATION THAN > > THE SYSTEM CURRENTLY USED BY WALMART." > > > > I wonder how many millions of lines of code Walmart has. Anyone who > thinks > > this is simple is deluding themselves. > > > I think anyone who's ever examined Walmart's supply chain and distribution > channel snickered a little bit at that. It's incredibly sophisticated, and > has taken decades of continuous refinement. > > Everyone knows that Walmart's revenues are roughly twice Greece's GDP, yes? > > -- > "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen > lytlað." > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/acpollack2%40gmail.com > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
