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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: 4 Oct 2024 19:11:29 GMT
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On Fri, 4 Oct 2024 10:41:17 -0700, John Ames wrote:

> On Fri, 04 Oct 2024 16:46:04 GMT scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal)
> wrote:
> 
>> As you say.
>> 
>> Also, 'candy cane' didn't note that Southwest had just completed a
>> complete overhaul of most of their mission critical systems after two
>> scheduling  meltdowns in 18 months.
> 
> If anything, it's a graphic object-lesson in the perils of monoculture
> and hyper-centralization; but then, we keep getting those, year after
> year, and people keep failing to learn from them, because Being Robust
> Is Hard, and CEOs don't care about the long term when there's the
> quarterly growth report to think about... :/

That goes beyond software. Thousands of contiguous acres of dent corn or 
other crops  might not be the best long term strategy for agriculture.