>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.
Remember "Garden Party" ?
"If memories were all I sang - I'd rather drive a truck ... " <s>
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
