On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:04:13 -0500, Jim Mulder <[email protected]> wrote:
>> PLMs. <sigh> >> >> IBM's promise to improve the doc included getting rid of PLMs. That >> way there wasn't as much information to go obsolete. ... > > That's not exactly how things happened. I assume nobody will be surprised to hear I didn't believe what I wrote, but I didn't know what emoticon to attach to it. Is there a "sarcasty"? >... the mid 1990s, and somewhere around then production >of PLMs (internal and external) ceased in order to reduce >development costs. Uh, reduce cost by eliminating Program Logic doc? I assume the PLM was replaced by something else for internal use. Eliminating doc for program logic seems like a good way to also eliminate program logic. BTW, I vaguely recall the before the external PLMs disappeared, some of them had changed format, with diagrams of logic flow being replaced with something else. "HIPO" diagrams or something like that? That helped lessen the blow of the PLM's demise. First replace it with something useless; then ease the pain by removing the PLM altogether. [insert a "scarcasty" here if you have one.] Was I the only one that did not like that change? Pat O'Keefe ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
