[Info-vax] OpenVMS developmen integration with Azure DevOps.

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 9/1/2021 8:25 PM, kemain.nospam at gmail.com wrote:
> This type of conversation is where I like to trot out this 2014 timeless OpenVMS article:
> <https://thedailywtf.com/articles/Jurassic-Programmers->

You have posted it before.

And it is very funny.

And such things happen.

But most likely this particular story is made up.

<quote>
SQL Server had been abandoned for indexed files stored on VMS.
...
The rock stars had created a monstrosity of a database, consisting of 
hundreds of undocumented tables
</quote>

So the dropped the relational database for VMS index-sequential files,
but when they needed to convert back they had a relational database.
That does not add up.

<quote>
Multi-tier programming was also abandoned, leaving business calculations 
everywhere from within DIBOL code on VMS to the paint routine of a 
Windows control.
</quote>

So they dropped multi-tier but have business logic in multiple
tiers. That does not add up.

<quote>
hundreds of undocumented tables tied together with hundreds of 
undocumented relations, all glued together with copious amounts of XML
</quote>

Database tables are not glued together by XML.

<quote>
new team of sharp-minded programmers to completely rewrite the software 
as a Windows application using VisualBasic.NET
...
version 2's data structure was built by programmers fresh out of college
</quote>

Some Colleges teach C# but practically none teach VB.NET. New graduates
and VB.NET is just a non-existing combination.

Arne