Brian wrote:

> Not a task for the faint of heart though, as it required being fluent in both languages - and their internal representations for various datatypes.  Yes, converting 'reals' back and forth to fixed-point were a pain, but it worked. I know, I've done it.  I once had to 'splice on' a small legacy HR subsystem written in COBOL to a recently installed MANMAN implementation, such as to share MANMAN's report routing and database access methods.  In essence, I made the COBOL code into called subroutines of a new MANMAN function.  Worked like a champ for many years.
>

Actually, ASK's MANMAN Payroll and HR modules were written in COBOL.

> Don't remember exactly where I learned about this - but it was at least partially from taking Alfredo's guidance to heart (and I paraphrase here): 'Read the documentation like a love letter, including reading between the lines, noting what it says, and what it does not say'.
>
> Better technical advice I've never been given

True dat...

> - except perhaps this:  Debug the code, not the comments.  ;-)

What? It's not a feature but a bug or design flaw?

;-)

Mark W.

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