You can include our own esteemed Mr. Marshall in that group! If I recall, and I am certain he will correct me if I am wrong, he was a Captain in the Air Force.
His contributions to the various "tapes" were much read and I can certainly say I learned quite a bit from reading his source code back in the earlier-mid 80's. On Tue Jan 29 0:01 , Ed Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: >On Jan 28, 2008, at 10:12 AM, Traylor, Terry wrote: > >> When asked about the significance of a college degree for a >> prospective >> employee, a friend responded that it showed that the individual had to >> do thing they didn't like or didn't want to do, but did them well >> enough >> to pass. The same could be said of any branch of military service. >> >> >> Terry Traylor >> charlesSCHWAB >> TIS Mainframe Storage Management >> Remedy Queue: tis-hs-mstg >> (602) 977-5154 >> ----------------SNIP-------------------------- > >Terry: >I was in the Army (back in the early 70's) and just from my >experience I am not sure I can agree with you on that. >I had exposure from e2's to Full bird Colonel's. The lifers (as we >called them) were sometimes nice people but technical?? nope. I had >to train 2 sp/7's and 1 E5 and not one of them had any idea what JCL >was and they never wrote a lick of code. When IBM came in to give os >an OS/Internals class There were two enlisted people. Myself and an >(on leave from IBM type) who had been drafted. He was one of the >people who wrote MVS internals(it was being worked on in the early >70's) and he was so far advanced he snickered when the instructor was >talking about dispatching priority and he said under his breath you >don't know what's coming. >The LT's were generally nice and had some experience but they did >learn quickly I will give them that. I caught one doing something >that was a "NO no" and turned him in. It was no biggy but the rules >had to be enforced. >The point I am trying to get across is that most army types do not >fit in well at a programmer jobs. I did *NOT* say all just most. >So I don't think you can site army types as having a college degree. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
