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We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love… and then we return home. - Australian Aboriginal proverb
Bazootiehead-in-training
Indeed.quote:Originally posted by Axtremus:
Since the Internet became popular, we have learnt much about what “scalability” means when it comes to computing.
Back when COBOL was state-of-the-art, not only the people managing those projects did not anticipate the scale of usage that we put on the system today, the conceptual understanding of scalability and the tools to deal with scalability were also very much less sophisticated than what we have today. From certain perspectives, it’s quite amazing that the old systems still work.
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"A mob is a place where people go to get away from their conscience" Atticus Finch
quote:Originally posted by Mikhailoh:
These are state systems, not federal, Nina.
quote:Originally posted by markj:quote:I've heard about places where all they had was compiled code and no source. I can't imagine how to reverse engineer a system like that.
It's called a re-write. lol
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We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love… and then we return home. - Australian Aboriginal proverb
Bazootiehead-in-training
quote:Originally posted by Mikhailoh:
These are state systems, not federal, Nina.
And, what frequently happens over the years is that someone adds on a little code here and there to deal with exceptional cases like leap years that end in 00 and things like that. The biggest problem in trying to reverse engineer a system is that you rarely see the effect of these little band-aids, so they don't get included in the re-write.quote:Originally posted by wtg:
Depending upon how large and complex a system is, this can be a nontrivial exercise.
Just sayin'.
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