On Feb 15, 2008, at 8:17 PM, Scott Ford wrote:

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
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Scott,

Well IBM and its 64 bit stuff was enough for me to see all my IBM stock. This Linux atrocity has utterly convinced myself that I made the right decision in the long term and I am looked at the 10-20 year time frame. Only time will tell.

Ed

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