On 21 Oct 2005 12:07:49 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ed Gould) wrote:
>On Oct 20, 2005, at 6:22 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: > >> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 10/18/2005 >> at 01:52 PM, Ed Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> >>> I disagree. The problem is (the way I see it) is that assembler >>> people are hard to come by >> >> I'm hardly the only assembler programmer to be unemployed. If the >> companies can't find us, it's because they don't want to. >> > >Ahhh but are you a cobol programmer as well? Management always wants >both. I can but companies in the Maritime provinces of Canada either have eliminated mainframes or are working hard to do so with the active encouragement of IBM. COBOL is also frowned upon at most places and given the grunginess of many systems, I suspect they are not completely wrong. Also in house is being replaced by packages for various good reasons. > >Ed > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
