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To: i-node who wrote (2533)	4/1/1997 12:48:00 AM
From: David R	of 10836

David Ray, my sister makes a good living writing and maintaining COBOL code. TO be honest with you, I have never written 1 line of COBOL. I had a MIS major girl friend in college. I peeked over her shoulder from time to time to look at her code. But I am PC brat. Started on Apple II, and moved to PC land. Other than a bit of PDP-11, and some workstations, that is it. So I joke about COBOL out of biased ignorance. I had no idea that the Rod was lurking in the shadows waiting for an opportunity to yell and berate :-O However, I have been in the industry long enough to understand legacy code, and the risks associated with abandoning millions of lines of working code (COBOL was often used for critical data processing, payroll, etc). Recent grads are amazed that multi-billion dollar corporations don't just throw out all of that old code, and re-write in C++ (or Java now). Hotheads like Rod don't seem to understand that a single bug in the data processing code of a major finacial institution could cost hundreds of millions of dollars. Legacy code is a fact of life.

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