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GnuCOBOL in the press

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From: arne@vajhoej.dk (Arne Vajhøj)
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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.'

Any given program, when running, is obsolete.

devel / comp.lang.cobol / GnuCOBOL in the press

Subject	Author
GnuCOBOL in the press	Arne Vajhøj
Re: GnuCOBOL in the press	docdwarf