12 Aug
2008
12 Aug
'08
8:58 a.m.
On 12 Aug 2008 at 11:15, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
I would've just written web primitives for COBOL,
if they don't already
exist.
If the original application were written for a terminal, I would
seriously consider running it as-is inside of an environment that
provided a web-based terminal interface. Sometimes, tweaking the
most innocuous bit of old code can lead to catastrophic results
later.
Often, what clouds the picture on projects like thse is the
tantalizing promise of adding new features to old code--and one of
the "features" inevitably turns out to be a can of cockroaches.
Cheers,
Chuck