RE: Also Leaving MidRange Equipment

> From: Eurrat Saylor, Jr.
> 
> I wanted to go on record and say that I am one of the few.  I learned
RPG,
> BASIC and COBOL on a S/34 while attending a little junior college in
Miles
> City, Montana on a rodeo scholarship.   Although, FORTRAN and PASCAL
were
> ran on an APPLE II+.   After landing my first IT job, I had to learn
> (basically self taught, until a seminar opened up months later) Lotus
123
> and DBase III.

Nothing wrong with that, Eurrat, and I hope I didn't imply anything
negative.  It's just that a lot of great midrange code was written by
people who didn't learn RPG in college.

My fear is that they're not teaching programming in college anymore.  If
CS101 starts off with Visual Basic and .NET, then you're missing a whole
bunch of stuff you need, like basic math, basic logic, basic algorithms
and basic DB design.

Joe