So what is your prescription for COBOL/CICS programmers who learned Java on their own? Kool-Aid? Are legacy programmers who worked on three generations of software suddenly not even worth interviewing to work on
2. Those that are so important to a problem domain that they don’t need to: Fortran77, COBOL (mind you large % of thems users will try force evolution… (f90). Properties syntax seems a bad idea, but hell, I love static import now, guess who everyone reminds being so damned sarcas...
I also work with COBOL on this old IBM mainframe we've since the 60s, here at work. I don't care too much for it though but it gives me a paycheck. Register To Reply 03-24-2015, 01:59 PM #30 AB33 Forum Expert Join Date 03-28-2012 Location TBA ...
Remember Y2K and the call for COBOL and FORTRAN programmers? Companies go out of business. Their assets may be scattered among many other competing entities. What happens to all the documentation that should have been saved. Source code? Even building a product with a LONG life cycle (...