My personal IT journey probably like others was a bit of a struggle. No college degree or let's say about 3 yrs in college and IT technical school. Had to claw my way into Systems Programming from operations, first with VSE and VM. My first love is VM. Then MVS, mostly on the SNA comm side then IP .so please excuse the dumb questions
Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD > On Jan 17, 2014, at 9:49 AM, DASDBILL2 <[email protected]> wrote: > > I had two months with ALGOL 60, two months with FORTRAN, then 48 years with > Assembler punctuated by one day with FORMAC and one day with RPG. FORMAC was > a cool superset of PL/1 that supported variables with thousands of decimal > places of accuracy. > Bill Fairchild > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Tim Lost" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2014 6:15:05 PM > Subject: Re: Carmine Cannatello's book > > Same here, Computer Ops, Production control and then into System Admin. I > say admin because I don't actually code anything. Just JCL, SMP/e and some > rexx. Maybe one day I can count myself among the few and chosen true > Sysprogs :-p > > >> On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 5:46 PM, Scott Ford <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Operations into systems programming >> >> Scott ford >> www.identityforge.com >> from my IPAD >> >> >> >> >>>> On Jan 15, 2014, at 5:53 PM, Gord Tomlin < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> On 2014-01-15 17:17, Tony Thigpen wrote: >>>> (Most Mainframe assembler programmers did time as a COBOL programmer.) >>> >>> Interesting assertion. The majority of systems programmers I know did >>> not come from an applications programming background. Personally, I've >>> only written one COBOL program since university, which means it's the >>> only one I wrote without using a keypunch. >>> >>> -- >>> >>> Regards, Gord Tomlin >>> Action Software International >>> (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) >>> Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 >>
