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> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of David Shein
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> Not from where we sit. We are a vendor and the lack of
> skills (and interest, which is what you asked about) has
> grown inexorably for more than a decade now. We see it
> everywhere, vendors and IT shops alike. It makes our job
> increasingly difficult. Just to select an obvious example
> from the many available, no one under age 45 seems to know
> anything at all about mainframe assembler, and even that's
> pushing it. The youngest one I know personally is about 48 or 49.
Twenty-odd years ago, when I was still on the "Applications side", I
interviewed for one job at which programmers were given the option to
code in COBOL, PL/I or C. I asked, "What about Assembler?" The
interviewer replied, "Anybody who even thinks about Assembler ought to
be taken out and shot!"
That's when I started looking for (and soon found) an opportunity to
move to the "Systems side".
-jc-
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