Is that _The Mythical Man-Month_? Excellent book. A few decades ago my boss
bought a bunch of copies and passed them around; I read it with much interest
and have valued its lessons since then.
...Come to think of it, I should get myself a copy and reread it.
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Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmai
tor 2020-07-16 klockan 23:12 -0300 skrev Clark Morris:
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> And will they have an adequate test mechanism for both online and
> batch? The hardest part of my job where I worked was getting a
> coordinated set of test data that I could use as a base. I also have
> come to the conclusion that the w
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Subject: Application necessities was Re: Still COBOL After All These Years?
[Default] On 16 Jul 2020 10:34:40 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main
sme...@gmu.edu (Seymour J Metz) wrote:
>The claim that COBOL is English like is every bit as bogus as the claim that
>rew
[Default] On 16 Jul 2020 10:34:40 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main
sme...@gmu.edu (Seymour J Metz) wrote:
>The claim that COBOL is English like is every bit as bogus as the claim that
>rewriting existing COBOL applications in another language will magically fix
>problems of underfunding, understa
