Ot: Death of the mainframe

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011, Nancy Palmquist wrote:
>I can add that these mainframes require skills that are becoming 
>scarce.  I have friends that work with these systems and they are 
>becoming more and more difficult to handle.
>
>SQL interfaces for the users.  YUK!
>
>JCL scripts that need handling and very heavy usage.
>
>But it pays her bills, big time.  But they work her 12 hours a day and 
>it never seems to end.  Managers schedule development and it is do or 
>die to get things done in time.  I do not envy her at all.

That's why I never admitted to being a good COBOL programmer
before the y2k madness.  There's no way I wanted to get into that
rat race (see Tracy Kidder's "Soul of a New Machine").

Bill
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