[Info-vax] inertia or fundamentals about langages?

[gérard Calliet]

Le 24/05/2019 à 19:06, Arne Vajhøj a écrit :
> The third approach is to focus on doing something
> really technically advanced and hope that somebody
> will be impressed.
So it was once upon a time with VMS. But Stephen Hoffman could say, now 
not so true.

I thought about a fourth approach. Not so far from inertia concept, but 
about the opposite: "it fits you".

The awfull "bespoke".

In a time getting a bespoke suit was thought as luxury. Now it is luxury 
from luxury. Only bellionairs can afford it.

And on computer domain, now a lot of people (Stephen Hoffman knows 
them), say "bespoke" is *bad* . Very difficult to argue that bespoke 
just *fits* a need. And, yes, bespoke is a result of long long times, 
the contrary of "agile".

But a bespoke suit can often accompany you a long long time, with 
everyone looking at you with interest, as a ready-to-wear could be a 
waste of money.

Difficult to argue  with that, because it is out of the fashion week, 
but we know a lot about waste of money with strange projects to port off 
VMS.

Gérard Calliet