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Subject: Re: GnuCOBOL in the press
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2024 12:38:46 -0000 (UTC)
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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