Posted on 09/21/2020 8:58:19 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I didn’t say it was easy.
As a manager if you’re deciding on what platform to use, always ask the question. If my entire development team died in a plane crash, which platform allows me to quickly find new developers at the lowest possible cost to the company.
Heck, when I started, sometimes we didn’t even have the 1s.
What no LISP or Prolog ?
Nope. Did anyone ever built a serious, industrial-strength app from either of those? If so, what?
LOL, good catch! A supposed tech blogger does not know the origins of Java.
JCL wasn’t so much a programming language as it was a script to tell the O/S what and how to run the application programs.
What?!!? None of the big bucks for things like Haskell or R?
I started my career as a developer/systems analyst/application architect etc. I saw the writing on the wall regarding coding and esoteric skills which could change weekly with the commensurate risk of obsolescence for current skills. I noticed they ALWAYS need project managers, so that’s what I became. My strong technical background gives me a strong edge on ‘book learned’ PMs. I’ve had a pretty successful career that includes building and selling my own consulting firm, consulting governments and managing 7 figure projects. When I encounter a new technology, I learn enough of it to apply my PM skills to managing it. AGILE has changed the nature of project management, so I’ve become an AGILE expert as well. Totally agnostic to the underlying technology.
Best I can tell, that is a jumbled mess that combines in a single line, functions that FORTRAN would separate into separate lines and subroutines. If this is correct, FORTRAN has an advantage to the original creator and follow on programmers in that a simple non-executing statement can be added to describe what in the hell the line, subroutine or variable is supposed to be doing.
Advantage to FORTRAN for simpler program creation and maintenance.
Advantage to contemporary language for machine language level efficiency.
I used for awhile, the jumbled line format such as your example that you may have crossed paths with in primitive fossils. Hehehe... They were not uncommon in scientific and engineering model manual inputs that used compiled FORTRAN for the number crunching. It’s hard for me to describe, but it tends to lead the mind to a different and immersive thought pattern so to speak. Think of it as speaking in calculus mathematics instead of English. Weird.
I’ve done all but Python, C++ and C#
I get yearly calls from a large insurance contracting outfit offering me a pay cut to code COBOL/CICS/VSAM. Let me think about that offer for a while no
I made very good money doing COBOL Y2K code remediation in 1999. Haven’t touched a line of COBOL since.
Nonetheless, just last week I got a call out of the blue from a headhunter who was trying very hard to talk me into coming out of retirement to take a COBOL programming job. It seems that government agencies and financial institutions all over the country are just now realizing they’re dependent on millions of lines of decades-old COBOL code, and there’s a real shortage of people who can write or maintain it.
I’ll admit, for a few minutes, I was tempted.
> It pays more to manage programmers.
I’d rather herd cats.
For me, it will all depend on whether I’m king of my own domain, or if I had to have regular contact with city or department managers. There is no money that could be paid to me to have conversations with little tyrants.
You are pretty clueless on this.
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