[Info-vax] VMS Software Inc. OpenVMS 8.4-1H1 Boots on i4 System

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

David Froble skrev den 2015-03-20 20:42:
> Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
>> David Froble skrev den 2015-03-20 15:30:
>>> Richard Maher wrote:
>>>> On 3/20/2015 12:31 PM, David Froble wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Software doesn't wear out.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Bit-Rot is very much a reality :-(
>>>>
>>>
>>> Perhaps an example of such?
>>>
>>> I have yet to see any software that after some time doesn't do what it had
>>> previously done.
>>
>> I have seen software that after some time doesn't do what is needed to
>> be done (now).
>>
>>
>>
>
> And just what does that have to do with my statement?

The point is that your statement is irrelevant. Who cares if that
code still does the "same thing", if that "thing" simply isn't the
"same thing" as it previously was. That code is worthless (today).

And your software had of course been easier to manage and develop
today using a modern database instead of that inhouse RMS layers.


>
> I never claimed software could evolve.  That's why we have programmers.
>
> If I have the piece of code:
>
> Print "Hi there"

OK. I must have missunderstood. I though your software package
actualy did a bit more than that. Sorry.