Re: [tlug] [OT] Japan and 海外 credit cards

[CF <theworldinunion@example.com>]

> Yeah, I hear some banks are still using OS/2...
or Excel 97 for that matter (it's 2009 now :-) . It's great of MS to  
let us easily count the number of years suffered :-)
It's not as simple as "saving it in the latest Excel format". The  
customized *.dll excel plugins to perform very complex calculation  
formulas written in the MFC4.0 (Win95) days all needs to be ported  
to .NET or whatever. You can do it but you need to be 100% accurate,  
right to the exact dime and penny, at first try. And the cost and time  
involved might be unjustificable. So all in all you're still stuck  
with low productivity regardless of how great the new version of Excel  
is .
And then we have COBOL, the super hated super resistant tech  
cockroach. :-)
Chiew