[PLUG-TALK] Old languages never die ... they are sent to govenments
Rich Shepard
rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Mon Apr 13 20:06:36 UTC 2020
On Mon, 13 Apr 2020, Paul Heinlein wrote:
> There are times when deferred maintenance is due to citizens reducing
> public funding (read: tax cuts), but a problem this old sounds to me like
> it's due to politicians preferring to fund new+shiny things that get good
> publicity rather than insisting on the boring work of asset maintenance.
Paul,
D'accord. Yet, it could also be that decision-makers (politicians or senior
staff) don't understand the problems of old software or put them at the
bottom of the funding-allocation list, never to move up until a crisis hits.
Rich
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