Re: Design shift of view

[Larry Bolhuis <lbolhui@xxxxxxx>]

boothm@ibm.net wrote:
> 
> I would think the "battleship" of in-place code and people that understand
> it and it's architecture is so great that only a brand new paradigm with
> brand new people would have any chance of implementation.

  Isn't this how the AS/400 came into being?  Didn't Dr. F NOT learn
computer design on the left or right coast in a big name school so that
he didn't get 'their view' of how a computer should be built?  If you
don't know how something is 'supposed' to be done you have a much
greater chance of doing it a different (albeit not always better) way. 
You may have a fiasco, or produce post-it notes! But at least you won't
get R Admiral Grace Hopper to beat you about the head and shoulders with
a stick either!

  (For those of you who never met the late 'grandma COBOL' she promised
that she would appear next to anyone who heard one of her speaches yet
continued to use the phrase 'because we've always done it that way' and
beat them about the head and shoulders with a stick. And she does. And
it hurts!)

  Larry Bolhuis
  Arbor Solutions, Inc
  lbolhui@ibm.net


> 
> By that, I don't mean the current people wouldn't be able to make the
> shift, just that in their conversations back and forth everything would be
> compared to the same old paradigm, just as was done in this thread a few
> days ago when punch cards were brought in as a way to explain a concept;
> punch cards have been gone for 15+ yeaars at most places.
> 
> In <35BCA7E3.F8E3CB93@ibm.net>, on 07/27/98
>    at 09:16 AM, "James W. Kilgore" <qappdsn@ibm.net> said:
> 
> >There were some soundings about the acceptance of "radical" changes in
> >how we do things.  IMO, radical can be brought to acceptance through
> >logical conclusion and the demonstaration that nothing gets lost and
> >plenty gets gained.
> 
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