Cobol - Re: Working with Legacy Code

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Re: Working with Legacy Code

andrewmcdonagh

2007-07-14, 3:55 am

On Jul 13, 11:56 pm, Alistair <alist...@ld50macca.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> On 12 Jul, 22:49, andrewmcdonagh <andrewmcdon...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> That does take the wind out of my sails a bit.

Sorry didn't mean to - I hope my response didn't come across as
anything more than wanting to let you know what Michael meant by the
phrase.

Regards

Andrew

Howard Brazee

2007-07-16, 6:55 pm

On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 04:39:07 -0700, in comp.lang.cobol you wrote:

>No, it was fine. I just thought that an interesting discussion would
>have ensued poking fun at the fave-rave languages. However, as any
>code passed into production now counts as legacy code, it undermines
>the base for a good discussion and even the question of do some
>languages become legacy sooner than others?'

Sometimes I wonder about Vernor Vinge's concept of a future where it
is very hard to dig down through code, finding legacy parts deep
inside. In one view, I see that we have disposable code - but on the
other hand, I see us using components that we don't own.

And everybody except the young have seen enough change to assume that
the new concepts aren't the end-all.

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