That’s awesome. Did maintenance programmers really exist back then?
> On 13 Jul 2022, at 8:13 am, Charles Mills wrote:
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> Sorry 'bout the link. How about
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> https://bit.ly/3z2y5XO
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> Charles
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Sorry 'bout the link. How about
https://bit.ly/3z2y5XO
Charles
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Subject: Re: NOTSP The Latin of Software
Or as I said in 1974
https://books.google.com/books?id=XrgyMRVh128C=PA16=Zc1NP23_DN=co
mputerworld%20cobol%20charles%20mills=PA16
Charles
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Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2022
That's a lesson that they learned on Multics way back one; worry about the
design first. During an I/O redesign, they wrote PL/I code to replace code
originally written in ALM (assembler), and the PL/I version was faster. Not
because of the compiler, but because of the improved design.
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