Ed, None of the kids ( I am over 50 ) want to learn Cobol or Assembler. I am working for a software company writing in assembler and loving it. Your right about colleges they are not teraching the older languages, only the web languages not a good thing. The shortage of z/OS system programmer Jobs after we all retire should be interesting...
Btw -- a few cold brews help me out...lol Regards, Scott IDF -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Gould Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 7:28 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Linux zSeries questions 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
