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Something to think about as a career move, guys and gals. I've been talking about the shortage in machine language folks for the manufacturing industry, and the banking/financial industry is just as desperate for troubleshooters.
1 posted on 04/11/2017 5:59:49 AM PDT by blueplum
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I remember the old joke.

What’s a S0C4?

To keep your feet warm.


64 posted on 04/11/2017 8:54:11 AM PDT by dfwgator
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A good friend is one of the dying breed of COBOL programmers and works for a large insurance company. I still can’t believe these COBOL running computer dinosaurs are still around. Maybe I should dust off my my 50 year old experience programming in FORTRAN


65 posted on 04/11/2017 8:57:03 AM PDT by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatcher)
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I taught COBOL up until 8 years ago. Hartford, CT was the insurance company of the world and our students could find jobs as COBOL programmers.


72 posted on 04/11/2017 11:50:09 AM PDT by KosmicKitty (Waiting for inspirations)
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I was an IBM lifer, coded in Assembler Language, for applications and systems back in the 70’s / 80’s. Also COBOL/PL/1 and PL/S. Fun stuff coding back then, especially when we received 3270 CRT instead of using punched cards. Miss those days.


73 posted on 04/11/2017 12:13:25 PM PDT by duckman ( Not tired of winning!)
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ahh yes, CICS back in the day

then i got into the R&D group and FORTRAN was King of the Hill... still is in some places

83 posted on 04/11/2017 6:28:13 PM PDT by Chode (My job is not to represent the world. My job is to represent the United States of America-#45 DJT)
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