On 23 Apr 2010 05:02:51 -0700, jch...@ussco.com (Chase, John) wrote: >> [ snip ] Please...its much easier for them to >> blame their problems on COBOL than to admit that they have done a >> crappy job managing their legacy assets. At each step in maintenance >> it is always easier to hack something together rather than to clean >> things up with new changes and requirements, but eventually there is a >> price to pay. > >As I say too frequently here, "The problem with 'quick and dirty' is >that if it works, it will stay 'dirty'."
Quick and dirty doesn't matter for one time jobs. But moving in the direction of integrated OO environments, the costs of cleaning up go up tremendously. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
