Benjamin Story wrote:
>Our shop is 99.999% COBOL and RPG(no not D&D). One thing that irks me
>about this fact is that the programs running on the AS/400 are
>generally buggier than even Microsoft code because (no offense to the
>older programmers on this list), most of the COBOL coders are set in
>the mindset of how programming was done 20 years ago. Error handling?
>Oh you mean having a 24/7 computer operator to tell the program to
>ignore bad data when it crashes because of it. A good modern
>programmer with COBOL knowledge can be pretty well set in the job
>market right now.
Yes, this is a large part of the problem. A lot of the people around
me seem to have contempt for the idea that maybe, just maybe,
programming practices have made some advances in the past 30 years.
Whenever I try to calmly talk about something like object-oriented
programming, they run away screaming about how much faster the
"mainframe" is. When I try to ask what they mean by that, they scurry
for their cubicles and give me dirty looks. It's pretty discouraging.
Don't even get me started on COTS packages . . .
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