[Info-vax] Coding with/without RDBMS

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-10-18, Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> That's funny...  The academic world did that decades ago.  That's
> why we keep hearing that COBOL is dead  and OOP and Agile are the
> best thing since sliced bread.
>

There's still a place for COBOL. Sometimes the practical language
instead of the fashionable language is required.

OOP allows you to very nicely implement abstraction layers provided
you don't go overboard and have 10 layers of abstraction to write
out a single character (for example). :-)

Agile OTOH seems way too often to be used as an excuse to not to do
the hard and real work of designing and laying out the overall
architecture before implementing the design.

Simon.

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