Re: Re[2]: IBM pushing Java

>Excerpts from midrange-l: 23-Mar-99 RE: Re[2]: IBM pushing Java Colin
>Williams@technocra (4689*)
>
>> If you are spending time rewriting old code that does the job, that is
>> time that is going to be better spent writing new enhancements to the
>> application, that will bring in new money

>Now suppose that, instead of enhancing the ASM code, we started from
>scratch and rewrote the tool in some high-level language.  Of course, in the
>second task our run-time memory footprint grew significantly, but new
>machines were coming out with a whopping *256K* of RAM standard, so that
>the motivation for minimizing footprint was reduced.
>
>Which project was the best expenditure of resource, and will pay back
>the most?


/BEGIN SPEWING

"Of Course" the rewrite is the better solution-- the HLL code allows the
-next- revision to be completed quicker and with more readability than
changing assembly code.  Plus, IMHO, HLL programmers are easier to find
than ASM programmers.

/END SPEWING

--Paul E Musselman
PaulMmn@ix.netcom.com


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