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To: David R who wrote (2539)	4/4/1997 11:42:00 PM
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<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.> I am not so sure that you can really dismiss Rod as a hothead - or at least not yet... Maybe I'm reading him wrong, but I don't think he is speaking against legacy code (be it written in COBOL or whatever). He seems to be saying that David Ray, You, and others should not be so high-handedly (i.e. "I've written a million lines of COBOL code") dismissing Java because, as he pointed out, "COBOL is to a programming language what DOS is to a PC". But I would go further to state that, borrowing from his excellent analogy, then Java would be to a programming language what the Windows revolution was to PCs. *And Windows too was dismissed by the vast majority of IS organizations at the time!....* Well, I better go now or I'll be late picking up my wife from work!

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