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On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:55:42 -0800, Arne Vajh�j <arne@vajhoej.dk> wrote: > My apologies if it has been posted before: > > http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Jurassic-Programmers-.aspx > > Arne In the 80's General Motors tried to move off VAX PL/I on to Unix/C The project was cancelled after several years and $12M later. Ford had a similar experience -- PL/I for OpenVMS www.kednos.com

In article <op.t7mkmigchv4qyg@murphus.hsd1.ca.comcast.net>, "Tom Linden" <tom@kednos.company> writes: >On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:55:42 -0800, Arne Vajh�j <arne@vajhoej.dk> wrote: > >> My apologies if it has been posted before: >> >> http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Jurassic-Programmers-.aspx >> >> Arne > >In the 80's General Motors tried to move off VAX PL/I on to Unix/C >The project was cancelled after several years and $12M later. Ford had >a similar experience ....but sharing their experience... Ford is now foisting Micro$oft ladden automobiles upon the hapless public. Hey kids, "Where do you want to go today?" Well you can't because the car has been hacked and it has the latest 'NoGoNoHow' virus. I can't wait for the day you turn the ignition key and get a dash console popup. +----------------------+ | Engine start failure | | | | [Abort][Retry][Fail] | +----------------------+ Good thing the "Geek Squad" is mobile in their Micro$oft free VW bugs. -- VAXman- A Bored Certified VMS Kernel Mode Hacker VAXman(at)TMESIS(dot)COM "Well my son, life is like a beanstalk, isn't it?" http://tmesis.com/drat.html

On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 05:10:28 -0800, VAXman- <@SendSpamHere.ORG> wrote: > In article <op.t7mkmigchv4qyg@murphus.hsd1.ca.comcast.net>, "Tom Linden" > <tom@kednos.company> writes: >> On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:55:42 -0800, Arne Vajh�j <arne@vajhoej.dk> wrote: >> >>> My apologies if it has been posted before: >>> >>> http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Jurassic-Programmers-.aspx >>> >>> Arne >> >> In the 80's General Motors tried to move off VAX PL/I on to Unix/C >> The project was cancelled after several years and $12M later. Ford had >> a similar experience > > ...but sharing their experience... > > Ford is now foisting Micro$oft ladden automobiles upon the hapless > public. > Hey kids, "Where do you want to go today?" Well you can't because the > car > has been hacked and it has the latest 'NoGoNoHow' virus. > > I can't wait for the day you turn the ignition key and get a dash console > popup. > > +----------------------+ > | Engine start failure | > | | > | [Abort][Retry][Fail] | > +----------------------+ > > Good thing the "Geek Squad" is mobile in their Micro$oft free VW bugs. > Bluetooth technology is great. http://www.heise.de/ct/schlagseite/03/01/gross.jpg -- PL/I for OpenVMS www.kednos.com

On Mar 5, 8:55=A0pm, Arne Vajh=F8j <a...@vajhoej.dk> wrote: > My apologies if it has been posted before: > > http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Jurassic-Programmers-.aspx > > Arne This article was great. Thanks. * * * The first time Nortel almost went under in the late 1980s, some pointy- haired boss decided that it was too hard to train new employees how to program in PROTEL (a variant of Pascal) which was the s/w running their DMS telephone switches. Nortel then embarked upon a massive rewritting of the DMS software from PROTEL to C. While they were doing this, they ran into many s/w problems and weren't able to ship anything new for about 18 months. (This was the time that their competition ate them for lunch). I guess I don't need to mention that their customers didn't care what language was used in the switch. They only wanted a product that worked. Neil Rieck Kitchener/Waterloo/Cambridge, Ontario, Canada. http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/