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dasil003
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Myth of the Flat Fee
PHP, Java, Cobol? It's all relative I suppose.
endtime
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You're recommending COBOL as more maintainable than Rails? I don't know Rails, but I find this very hard to believe.
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The times, they are a-changing. COBOL has its own agile framework:
http://www.coboloncogs.org/INDEX.HTM
dasil003
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Where did I say maintainable? This is about stability over time.
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>creaky and painful to upgrade—or even to find someone else to work on
What do you mean by maintenance, if not that?
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