You might be right but your argument rests on an awful lot of assumptions that weren’t detailed in the article. It’s just as likely it was intended to scale th

You might be right but your argument rests on an awful lot of assumptions that weren’t detailed in the article. It’s just as likely it was intended to scale the way it had and it was just poorly implemented from the outset. I’ve seen this happen plenty of times in the past where an extremely rudimentary POC is rushed into production and the official workaround is a scary chain of kludges. It was especially common in the era this BANCStar originates because compute time was expensive so it was often cheaper to code by hand and then hire typists who’d input your code and compile it, passing you a print out of any errors raised. Starting again from scratch if your basic premise sucked often wasn’t an option. Man do I not miss those days.