Re: Newbie question on table design.

From: Bob Badour <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca>
Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 09:30:15 -0300
Message-ID: <463b2728$0$4045$9a566e8b@news.aliant.net>

David Cressey wrote:

> "Anne & Lynn Wheeler" <lynn_at_garlic.com> wrote in message
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>>"David Cressey" <cressey73_at_verizon.net> writes:
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>>>I know practically nothing of CDC culture, but quite a bit about DEC
>>>culture, going way back.  My impression of CDC culture, gleaned

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> indirectly
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>>>from what Niklaus Wirth had to say about the CDCmachines,  is that CDC
>>>culture discovered interactive development later than DEC culture did.

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> I'm
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>>>just about certain that IBM culture discovered interactive development

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> later
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>>>than DEC culture did.  This is somewhat related to the topic at hand.
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>>I've often commented that it wasn't that IBM culture didn't have
>>interactive development ... which was compareable to features/size of
>>most other vendors (that might be considered interactive) ... it was
>>that in the 60s, 70s & much of the 80s, the batch market size dwarfed
>>the interactive.

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> Fair enough. IBM culture was big enough, at the time, so it could
> accommodate a large number of internal subcultures. The part of IBM culture
> that was visible to me was definitely not into interactive development.
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> Even though they had interactive terminals, on line editing, etc. etc.
> compiling a source program was a batch job. And that affected the workflow.

I have to say that can have some advantages. I know a couple people who were coding back then, and they know how to debug software. With interactive tools, it can be a little too easy to spend all of one's time in edit/compile/run mode rather than look/think/code mode. Received on Fri May 04 2007 - 07:30:15 CDT