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This reminds me of the MBA at the bank data center who decided he would write the code to generate a business account summary report himself in APL. It brought the mainframe to its knees and ran for hours. I took pity on the auditor tasked with running the report. It took me 10 minutes to rewrite it in the data retrieval scripting language and submit to operations where it ran in just minutes. The MBA was furious but everyone else couldn't thank me enough.
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@johnsmith-ro2tw The MBA left the company. I was never in danger. Sometimes performance can beat politics.
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@iamhereblossom1588 Using matrix manipulation in APL to produce a simple summary report required more memory than was available on a small mainframe in the early 1980s. Most of the time was probably spent swapping things in and out of memory. Even COBOL would have been overkill - Easytrieve was sufficient.
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