She was kind of a babe in her youth.
"It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission."
Posted on 04/05/2020 9:49:43 AM PDT by fuzzylogic
True, however the tooling to detect them in C/C++ is difficult to use and requires making special builds.
Since a codebase is only as good as the worst developer working on it using these tools should be mandatory, but most teams don’t.
Cut from the same cloth of those who say, "Visual Studios", "Visual Basics", or "Esss-Q-ellls"
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Is that Grace Harper?
Hopper. Adm. Grace Hopper. Defined how far light goes in a nanosecond.
I was programming from 500 miles away 15 years ago.
Give them a call. They can only tell you "no" - and you might end up cashing in from your house.
You just need high-speed Internet. You'd probably be emulating a terminal into a secure midrange or mainframe.
lol...batch processing to update databases by other systems.
You’re reminding me of nightmare systems I dealt with in the ‘90s.
I’m so glad I moved into embedded systems 20 years ago.
How many MSM outlets will mock the NJ Governor for having 40 year old programs still in use, much less asking for COBALT programmers? Probably fewer than those who called into question the truth of PDJT’s statement that some states were using 40 year old software. Yikes. Sanctuary states have had money for lots of other things....
That could be said for any language.
go right to the brains of the outfit...
Unfortunately it’s not the language that’s the problem but understanding the systems that need to be updated. If you know how it works it’s easy.
Now we spend the majority of our time teaching developers in India how it all works so they can maintain it after we all retire. I’m just waiting now until it’s time or they offer an early retirement package. Good thing is during this time I can work from home so I social distance every day.
haha - everyone hates NJ, seems to be the prevailing sentiment.
Somebody tell the governor there’s help...but not coming there!
Well I would be willing to do remote programming of course. But they are asking for “volunteers” so that sounds like working for free to me.
Trying to find where they have a contact number to “volunteer”.
Dang, that’s older than PERL isn’t it?
She was kind of a babe in her youth.
"It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission."
Yep, no call for programs that can run for fifty years, anymore!
What would all the H1Bs do for a job?
I'm sure their transgender discrimination laws are up to date.
lol - they’ll probably decide to rewrite it using LISP.
Trump wanted it done at the Fed level. They would not listen.
What’s wrong with “over 60”? And COBOL has been enhanced throughout the years, so it’s NOT OVER 60. The current version of COBOL is NOT OVER 60! Clear? Same name, substantially different language specifications. Cabeesh?
There is no danger of relying on COBOL, and it is not obsolescent. The problem is that companies replaced their American programmers with non-Americans, and told the Americans to get lost. Programming and maintenance was done from sparkling new offices in Mumbai.
Now, with flights from Mumbai halted, managers need people to maintain those systems. Listen, managers, the body may be aging, but the mind isn’t. How much do you pay? Oh, sorry, that wouldn’t be enough. Yes, I’ll work online.
Just because an operating system’s architecture was designed in the 60’s, doesn’t mean it’s outdated. There have been enhancements to it, so it is able to handle anything you throw at it, while remaining backwards compatible with systems designed in the 60’s.
And no, I don’t work for IBM.
“the real problem is understanding the whole system architecture and not breaking it.”
Well, if they find someone with that sort of experience with that particular system, they better pay them a lot.
Ditto for Wash.state . They will even pay your COBOL education if you promise to work for the state.
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