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Originally posted by cojak View PostSuity is a man of our times.
Adapt and overcome...
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Originally posted by suityou01 View Post
Wow, from MS Access to JSON in under a year. Hope you didn't get a nosebleed.
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Originally posted by BR14 View Posti remember being young and impressionable too.
Now what did I come in here for?
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Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View PostWot? Like Doctor Who?
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Originally posted by ladymuck View PostA what?
Loving all the yesteryear chat, btw. I think we should change the thread title to "when I were a lad..."
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Absolutely spot on by pauldee in my opinion. I actually put all this down to working practices/methodologies from 2 different environments & 2 different generations/eras.
Originally posted by pauldee View PostThat's one line of code every 3 seconds, non stop, for 8 hours. I can barely type that fast, so I struggle to think that you were stopping to think about whether you were applying the best approach.Originally posted by GhostofTarbera View PostYou would not have survived in core banking days or cobol and RPG - code still running 85% of all banks world wide
Originally posted by pauldee View PostI expect I would have been fine. You're comparing things that happened decades ago with modern coding practices.
There may still be a lot of Cobol and RPG around but banks are slowly and painfully replacing it in order to stay competitive with the more agile Monzos and fintechs.
In my personal opinion, and having worked in both different environments, I think in particular Investment Banking branch of FS, their methodologies to build software is maybe a bit outdated. I'm sure they're playing catch up. But as already mentioned, It wiill be slow & painful. I'm just speaking from my experience.
I know i might be making strong acquisations here but dare I say the people here who's been strongly defending the idea of non-stop churning of code is good/measure of ..... actually haven't worked in the modern software building environments & just can't accept the goodness those modern environments brings.
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