On Feb 15, 2008, at 5:35 PM, Scott Ford wrote:
Phil,
I learned VM and CICS by reading IBM's source code..no issue here,
made me a
Better sysprog...
Regards,
Scott
IDF
Scott:
Apparently Phil has a problem with a misconfigured email client and
the reply went to him rather than the group. I have since reshipped
the reply to the group.
But to your answer thats fine but IBM is not doing real education (ie
assembler) or any other low level language in colleges (to the best
of my knowledge). How else do you think these future people will
support LINUX? PLX? hahaha IBM does *NOT* externalize it. So how can
they teach it?
In order to read source you must understand the language teaching
people COBOL does not qualify them to read a source level OS (unless
its written in COBOL ((thank heaven for that)). ahhh of course there
is JAVA that will get you laughed right out of the US. I just see
*NO* reasonable amount of people being available to take over LINUX
support in the say 20 year time frame. Oh wait we will start
tomorrow.... give me a break IBM has been shutting down education
support for the last say 18 years (maybe before) and now they are
magically going to come up with 20,000 (guess) people to support
LINUX within 20 years? Maybe in INDIA (or China) not in most other
parts of the world. I won't go into the issues of the US government
running their super TS applications on code that was written in a
foreign country. That leaves the US government having to write and
design their own OS , boy are we in trouble.
Ed
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