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To: Glenn
Yessiree us old-timers have to stick together on this.

Someday FORTRAN and COBOL will be back and then who'll be laughing.

Dagnabbit.

13 posted on 03/18/2003 3:45:32 AM PST by billorites
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To: billorites
Yessiree us old-timers have to stick together on this. Someday FORTRAN and COBOL will be back and then who'll be laughing. Dagnabbit.

This "old timer" is compiling a C++ program as I type this

49 posted on 03/18/2003 6:54:44 AM PST by clamper1797 (Credo Quia Absurdum)
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To: billorites
I work for Big Blue in mainframe storage management and almost all of us are OLD. We hired some college kids and only one could hack it. It was too complicated for them so they switched to servers. It's hard to find mainframe people who know their stuff.
117 posted on 03/19/2003 2:37:14 PM PST by dljordan
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