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>>My sister-in-law is a COBOL programmer for a large bank. She has threatened to quit several times (she is just ready for something "different"). But the bank always comes back with more money, set your own hours, work from home, basically anything to keep her maintaining the arcane piece software that she maintains.
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>And that's why COBOL will never die (grin).
It is fortunate there are those with a capacity to work year after year without ever learning anything new or getting excited about advances in their field.
If I were to project my own personality on those cobol people I'd have to assume that the most important "benefit" the employer would have to offer would be 24/7 suicide watch. ( cobol .. hell, Foxpro ! )
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.
