Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!rutgers!brl-adm!brl-sem!ron
From: ron@brl-sem.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: portable code
Message-ID: <495@brl-sem.ARPA>
Date: Sun, 23-Nov-86 02:30:39 EST
Article-I.D.: brl-sem.495
Posted: Sun Nov 23 02:30:39 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 24-Nov-86 00:45:49 EST
References: <653@moscom.UUCP> <569@hoptoad.uucp> <11569@watnot.UUCP> <8612V6M@PSUVM>
Organization: Electronic Brain Research Lab
Lines: 15

In article <8612V6M@PSUVM>, V6M@PSUVM.BITNET writes:
> <>
> Let me clarify my position.
> 1.  I teach MIS & DP courses mostly, so I don't assign problems whose
>     solutions are input to the sucessful completion of a project.
> 2.  DP/MIS shops run on the theory of "get it working...

This "DP/MIS" approach will get shops into trouble in todays market place.
If a competetive environment and the advent of UNIX, you can expect the next
slicko computer that the company buys is not going to be architecturily
comapatible with the current one.  The problems are magnified if you are
actually in the SOFTWARE business where your programs are expected to work
on UNIXs of many hardware flavors.

-Ron