7 Aug
2008
7 Aug
'08
6:41 p.m.
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 8:13 PM, Paul Koning <Paul_Koning at dell.com> wrote:
An easy way to see that the California stories is about lying managers
rather than about COBOL is this:
In the 20-30 years that software has been used, there surely have been
some pay raises.
Tempting to jump on, but there might be transactional support for percentage
or flat pay changes that would require no source changes, while the flat
adjustment across the board could well require a source change,
recompilation, relinking and the concomitant testing and auditor approvals.
Michael