Ed, That's an excellent suggestion ...
Scott ford www.identityforge.com Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand. - Chinese Proverb On Feb 16, 2013, at 7:41 PM, Ed Gould <[email protected]> wrote: > On Feb 16, 2013, at 2:15 PM, John Gilmore wrote: >> -------------------SNIP-------------------------------------------------- >> The culture of most COBOL shops is so complacent that disruptive >> technology is very hard to teach in them. It is not, I am sure, >> impossible; but it is almost certainly uneconomic. >> . > > John (and Steve), > > I suspect COBOL programmers want to lean how to basically code COBOL programs > and how to debug them PERIOD. > > I would suggest that any advanced facilities be taught in a separate class > only for programmers that want to be adventerous. > > COBOL programmers are under the gun to be (if you must) work horses and > nothing else. > > Ed > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
