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Are we going backwards?
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01/12/2009 11:44:40
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
 
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ASP.NET
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Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01436966
Message ID:
01437096
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>>>Dragan mentioned COBOL. For a while I programmed VFP side by side with some COBOL/CICS programmers who could sit at a TSO termninal and knock off apps with thousands of lines of code in less than an hour by judiciously cutting and pasting from other apps that they had worked with every day for years.
>>>Because of their extraordinary expertise, they could keep up with my VFP output without breaking a sweat.
>>>
>>>As they say in golf, it's not the club... it's who's swinging it.
>>
>>Well I know a good swinger who wrote code generators... generated Cobol code from mFoxPlus :).
>
>I was talking to a former coworker recently who said there is a lot of demand for COBOL programmers these days. Some of those systems are still running and the programmers are retiring. I would hate to go back to slinging COBOL, but I guess it's nice to know the option exists.

Specially with all the Fox experience... you could just write a bunch of code generators and smile... thinking of the length of the amount on the paycheck.

back to same old

the first online autobiography, unfinished by design
What, me reckless? I'm full of recks!
Balkans, eh? Count them.
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