Developing Quality Metadata

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Remote Renderers and Compilers

Winding the clock back to when we used large mini-computers, installing software licenses on every machine became too expensive. It is still expensive, and because we do much more on our desktop machines than we used to, license fees are a major problem for large enterprises.

I was maintaining an application that was mostly written in Fortran. A section of it needed to walk a tree-structured node hierarchy, and the original implementers couldn’t get this to work properly in Fortran. Their solution was to implement this module in Pascal. I didn’t have a Pascal compiler. Instead, I wrote some scripts to copy my ...