Re: Year 2000

[boothm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

John, I've heard you speak and I've seen some of your coding:  I'd bet 
*really*   big bucks that you do exactly as you say.  I'd also bet you are
one of the top programmers in the world.  

I'd also bet there are many shops with code that isn't even close to
meeting your minimum levels of performance.  Yet that code is the code we
are dealing with most of the time.  

Also remember, some of these programs are 12+ years old, from the Sys/36
or  38.  They've already been adjusted for external file descriptions (or
not).  Some of these are 6,000+ lines long and no one is left that
remembers how the program evolved to this point.  All anyone will swear to
is that it hasn't failed in the last 5 years.  No one is volunteering to
touch those programs.  At least no one still sane.


on 06/07/97  at 11:16 PM, John Carr <74711.77@CompuServe.COM> said:

#I do all those neat Performance things so that I can take (for a short
#time  frame maybe) a performance hit on strategically important things
#like  date and time types.

#Just my $.02
#John Carr
#EdgeTech

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