John, Surely you mean a tall desk, a tall chair and a quill pen, the full Bob Cratchit.
Chris Mason ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chase, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, 30 March, 2006 4:28 PM Subject: Re: Systems Programmer Levels Justification > > -----Original Message----- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of McKown, John > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Joel C. Ewing > > > > <snip> > > > > > A marginal > > > SysProg has many more opportunities than an application programmer > to > > > make a mistake that could put the entire company out of business. > > > > It therefore behooves all sites to migrate to a platform which does > not > > need sysprogs. Once the sysprogs are eliminated, we can go to work on > > eliminating the application programmers. > > Such a platform already exists. It's called "pencil and paper". > > -jc- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

