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I was younger when I was an assembly language programmer working with the guts of a SCADA system running on TI-960 computers (don't ask, you do NOT want to know about the machine architecture) and was going out to a site in Missouri somewhere east of Springfield when a large sign on a small building announced:
The First Assembly of God
I nudged the senior guy I was working with and pointed it out to him, adding "I wonder how many error messages they got?"
He snorted and riposted "Screw that, why can't they afford a compiler?"
I was younger when I was an assembly language programmer working with the guts of a SCADA system running on TI-960 computers (don't ask, you do NOT want to know about the machine architecture) and was going out to a site in Missouri somewhere east of Springfield when a large sign on a small building announced:
The First Assembly of God
I nudged the senior guy I was working with and pointed it out to him, adding "I wonder how many error messages they got?"
He snorted and riposted "Screw that, why can't they afford a compiler?"
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you will either thank me or curse me for this...
Date: 2009-03-08 06:50 am (UTC)SCADA is one of those arcane intersections where volts are isolated from tens to hundred of KV by dubious methods. Relay chains on panel boards Doc Frankenstein would envy. Controlled by computer code worthy of Rube Goldberg scripting Space Opera Yeah- seen part of that elephant. What was the quote comparable to SCADA's deployment days? Ah- Google gifts us with :
http://www.anvari.org/fortune/Quotations_-_Random/1215_quote-123-usenet-is-like-a-herd-of-performing-elephants-with-diarrhea.html