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Re: GnuCOBOL in the press

From docdwarf@panix.com ()
Newsgroups comp.lang.cobol
Subject Re: GnuCOBOL in the press
Date 2024-03-16 12:38 +0000
Organization Public Access Networks Corp.
Message-ID <ut43sm$f4b$1@reader1.panix.com> (permalink)
References <ut2smb$2i94f$1@dont-email.me>

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In article <ut2smb$2i94f$1@dont-email.me>,
Arne Vajh??j  <arne@vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>https://thenewstack.io/20-years-in-the-making-gnucobol-is-ready-for-industry

Well done, Mr Vahoej.  It give me a vision of young men with notepads, the 
hats on their heads with cards reading NYHEDSPRESSE asking questions.

In my own experience... every so often I'll get an email, offering a job 
that requires 10-15 years of COBOL, 5-7 years of CICS, 5 years of IBM 
mainframe system utilities (IDCAMS leads the list) and offering an hourly 
rate I exceeded in 1988.

When I point out that inflation, alone, almost triples that rate in 
today's dollars and they're looking for 10-15 years in a skill that folks 
decided to stop learning twenty years ago (thanks, Mr Gunshannon!) the 
response is, universally, 'yes, we know, but this is what the client is 
offering.'

DD

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GnuCOBOL in the press Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2024-03-15 21:29 -0400
  Re: GnuCOBOL in the press docdwarf@panix.com () - 2024-03-16 12:38 +0000
    Re: GnuCOBOL in the press Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon@gmail.com> - 2024-06-23 18:02 +0000
      Re: GnuCOBOL in the press docdwarf@panix.com () - 2024-06-23 20:44 +0000
        Re: GnuCOBOL in the press Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2024-06-23 19:24 -0400
        Re: GnuCOBOL in the press Robert Doerfler <rodo@bloerp.de> - 2024-07-04 20:32 +0000
          Re: GnuCOBOL in the press docdwarf@panix.com () - 2024-07-05 00:18 +0000
          GnuCOBOL in the press Amessyroom@f10.n1.z5.binkp.net (Amessyroom) - 2024-07-11 22:29 +1300
            Re: GnuCOBOL in the press David Meyer <papa@sdf.org> - 2024-07-12 14:26 +0900
            Re: GnuCOBOL in the press Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2024-07-12 07:13 -0400
          Re: GnuCOBOL in the press "Vincent Coen" <VBCoen@gmail.com> - 2024-07-12 12:58 +0100
            Re: GnuCOBOL in the press Joe <none@nowhere.whereo> - 2024-07-13 13:03 +0000
              Re: GnuCOBOL in the press "Vincent Coen" <VBCoen@gmail.com> - 2024-07-13 23:05 +0100

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