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by fork1 8y ago
Unless you're dealing with mainframes, it's not like you see it everyday.
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by fork1 8y ago
You can already migrate away from your mainframe and take all those JCLs, PL1 Stored Procs and other oddities into a quite standard linux box.
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by fork1 8y ago
Germany started WW1 with the ambition to make it a limited war, with limited goals. Quickly subduing France, and breaking Russia. Most people on either side thought it was going to be a short war. It evolved differently though. As for the s
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by fork1 8y ago
It might also be given cursory treatment for the simple reason that it was "marginal". Take France (since i'm french), one of the big users of overseas and colonial troops, the article lists 500k colonial conscripts. Except w
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by fork1 8y ago
There was plenty of important conflicts in Europe between WW1 and the Napoleonic wars, not on the same scale, but it was hardly peaceful. Europe was undergoing major structural changes with the advent of nationalisms. And the causes of war
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by fork1 9y ago
As i've made clear in my other posts in this thread, i dont believe in rewrites. I've seen lots of very painful ones though, and never quite finished, nor iso-functional. However, there are other ways to unplug the mainframe. I wo
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by fork1 9y ago
Well, i know of at least one client that still has the binaries but not the sources of the cobol. But for the generic case, the mainframe is quite an integrated system, and big clients tend to use a lot of the features at the same time. Ev
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by fork1 9y ago
There are alternatives, but i'm biased. See my other comment. One of the biggest hurdle we have is that the clients dont usually have many tests in place. Testing and validating a full batch night for example (ie 6 hours of intense bat
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by fork1 9y ago
Cobol programmers are starting to get few nowadays, and finding people that actually want to be trained in it is not that easy. Plus you dont just need programmers, but z/OS engineers, DB2 DBAs, MQ specialists, etc. And that's bef
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by fork1 9y ago
I work on cobol migrations (or anything mainframe more correctly) to x86. I've never seen a rewrite of a real application that actually worked. Some have tried but ended up throwing the towel. We've taken a different approach, by
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by fork1 9y ago
Thanks for sharing this!
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by fork1 9y ago
War was prevalent in primitive societies as well, it hardly appeared with currency. Currency and in a more general way, an organized society makes you better at waging war, hence their success. If anything primitive societies' wars wer
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by fork1 9y ago
We had military and law enforcement long before regular currencies. Societies were already investing significant amount of energies into these activities as well. The idea that switching to bitcoin or whatever will remove the need for eith