From: raymond capozzi <rcapozzi@...>
Date: 2004-12-23T15:32:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Infranet Bindings

Mark my words: COBOL will return and destroy all life on this planet to
include that fuzzy stuff growing on my cheese that has now moved on to the
eery green glow of bottles of Becks.

As for usefulness of the actual bindings, that is left to the musing of the
reader. The bindings mealy allow a programmer to access Infranet from Ruby.
What they choose to do is entirely at the discretion of the individual. For
example, you could use the infranet bindings along with the rails web
framework to replace webkit. This would provide a more modular integration
into a customer self care portal. Alternatively you could also test out the
cust_pol_delete_cust opcode. You could make an gateway deamon since the ruby
bindings do not leak.  If interest is great enough, I could include a make
define, perhaps -DLEAK_LIKE_PORTAL, so we can recall the past.

I wrote the bindings more out of curiosity in developing ruby extensions.  I
never intended to actually use them. At time passes, however, it is though a
new shiney tool has landed in my toolbox and is screaming 'love me. bludgeon
me'. Perhaps that cheese mold has met its match.

Realistically speaking, I would only expect this to be of interest to those
in Japan.  Here in the states, we do not use Ruby because, and try to catch
this slight of hand, 'Who else uses ruby'. We mock what we do not understand
(and prompty fry it once we do).

>
> Huh. And here I thought that Portal had gone belly up, or at least
> et up just like Solect was. (I was a designer on Horizon's actual
> billing software, which was probably a better application than
> Infranet, but without the cachet of an IPO behind it before Amdocs
> got stupid and bought us and effectively killed us in favour of
> their COBOL application.)
>
> My question is -- what exactly does Infranet provide that can be
> dealt with via scripting? Telcos aren't known for being progressive
> that way.
>
> -austin
> -- 
> Austin Ziegler * halostatue@gmail.com
>                * Alternate: austin@halostatue.ca
>
>