On 29 Sep 2013 22:13:02 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >John, >Yeah, there are still a ton of Cobol shops and not many young bucks and does >wanting to learn it ..sorry play on words
There may be a ton of shops but are there paying jobs in them or have they been outsourced to lower wage areas? Clark Morris > >Scott ford >www.identityforge.com >from my IPAD > >'Infinite wisdom through infinite means' > > >> On Sep 29, 2013, at 9:45 PM, John McKown <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> I guess that good to know. And I can sort of see it, from what little I >> remember of Turbo Pascal and Delphi, and a brief flirtation with Modula II. >> I've only had the GCC Ada compiler, and I don't really know how standard it >> is. But I don't think that Ada took off any better than PL/I did. So much >> for either of them being the "one language to rule them all". On z/OS, >> COBOL still seems to be King (at least in terms of number of lines of >> customer code). On UNIX, C/C++ seems to still the be the main winner, but >> with a large retinue of others (Perl, Python, Ruby, ...). On Windows, well >> I plead ignorance and apathy: I don't know and I don't care. I despise >> MS-Windows. As is likely well known by now. >> >> >> On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 8:46 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> In >>> <caajsdjhovrtxbmxk+bhdqwookpp7_h3z4mtthsyoyzyjfnj...@mail.gmail.com>, >>> on 09/26/2013 >>> at 09:10 AM, John McKown <[email protected]> said: >>> >>>> "Ada is PL/I trying to be Smalltalk. -- Codoso diBlini >>> >>> Actually Ada comes from the Pascal tradition and is quite at variance >>> with PL/I. >>> >>> -- >>> Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT >>> ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> >>> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. >>> (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >>> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >> >> >> >> -- >> I have _not_ lost my mind! It is backed up on a flash drive somewhere. >> >> Maranatha! <>< >> John McKown >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
