Re: Ooooops!....
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 17:37:16 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <4890f75f-3d0f-41b8-8992-3d67dec9612f_at_n7g2000prb.googlegroups.com>
On Dec 7, 1:15 pm, Mladen Gogala <gogala.mla..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> It wouldn't be too late to rewrite all those apps in Perl. It's portable,
> powerful and much more convenient than Java. Gosling and McNealy could
> say that Java was a prank gone bad and that they have never thought that
> it would catch on like it did. Also, rewriting all those applications in
> Perl would dramatically improve employment figures in the US.
Or it likely could help deliver (con)Fusion on time and on budget? Instead of the total debacle it's been...
Heck, the Attorney General Department here in NSW never delivered a multi-million dollar development in j2ee after 10 (T-E-N!!!!) years of duh-velopment. Eventually they threw the whole lot out, as they should have done 10 years before if they had had any brains to start with...
But you'd hear the bozos there talking about their "application" as if
it was the second coming!
"It far surpasses anything ever done, look: see this bynamic drop box?
Amazing, isn't it?" and other pearls (no pun intended!) of
"development nirvana" I witnessed.
When in 2003 I asked how many screens they had to do, they said: "28!
It is a MAJOR system, do you understand?".
Of course: me delivering in 2004 a fully operational 78 screen
application to NSW Mining Department in 8 months, fully debugged and
tested, was a figment to be ignored.
Because it was done in Forms, instead of a "proper environment".
Anyone asking me to have ANY respect for these bozos is asking the impossible. Received on Wed Dec 07 2011 - 19:37:16 CST