Posted on 04/05/2020 9:49:43 AM PDT by fuzzylogic
Is that Grace Harper?
But then you’d be in New Jersey.
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Yeah. I knew it quite well back in the day. Worked with it a lot and could probably get right back into it with a little research. I think I even still have books on it around here someplace.
However, just their stance alone on the 2nd Amendment, their crappy gun laws and how they treat gun owners, I wouldn’t crap down their throats if they were starving to death. They can go take a flying “F” at a slow rolling donut.
No it’s Grace Hopper.
Absolutely. Although I’d guess their desire is to spend as little as possible and “magically tweak” the existing system to handle the load better.
Good luck with that!
“Any takers Freeper’s? “
seems like a good way to make $300/hr for any who are left and still have their wits about them ...
My place uses Acces 2003 as a core part of manufacturing.
Believe it or not.
Office politics is the main reason.
At some point, a workable replacement will have to come about.
Sorry Jersey, coded systems for almost 25 years up to 2003, but I wouldn't travel east of the mississippi for all the virus in china.
See how much I've forgotten?
tell them to give me a call... I’ve done that in the past
I reach my Full Retirement Age in four months. If someone wants to pay me $12K/week I might consider picking it up again. No? Then I'll stick with C, C++, Perl, and Python at my current $DAYJOB.
It's Not That Hard.
FORTRAN and REXX for me.
Would New Jersey style COBOL have the f word at random places all the way through?
I took a COBOL class back in the early 80s... the instructor said he was on the fence whether he was going to teach an english composition course or COBOL.
Did this idiot really say “Cobalt”? A Governor appealing for people and gets the name wrong. There are still quite of few of us who know COBOL. The bigger problem is they may be running a home brew custom program with little or no documentation. I remember some years ago there was a community in Mi whose Maintenance Dept was actually running their system with NeXT OS. Talk about flying with no parachute.
Yeah I hear ya.
I could, but they couldn’t pay me enough to do so.
It’s just another computer language. I think a competent programmer could fake it after a couple of days of reading manuals, and just learn on the job after that. Maybe their timeline doesn’t allow for that, but it would be better, I think, than waiting around wishing for their ideal candidates.
It wouldn’t surprise me if they don’t understand that the hard part is knowing the application logic and architecture. They probably think there’s a quick fix.
Maybe the system it’s running on could run in a virtual machine and scale it with multiple instances on modern servers?
If not they’ll probably have to choose between a time consuming (expensive) fix to the existing system (for somebody to learn it all, with no promises) and rewriting it.
I’m sure the media will jump on this as “should’ve seen this coming!” </s>
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