Re: Welcome

Chris,
I have skills in both RPG and COBOL - although for the past 3 years I have been
predominately working in COBOL. I have done noY2K work - COBOL or RPG they have 
all
been high level projects.  I own a consulting firm and while I do see more 
requests
for RPG there are still several for COBOL as well.  Most of our staff is
"bi-lingual" which is seen as a real benefit by our clients generally. If I 
have to
write a "quick fix" program or a program dealing significantly with date
manipulation I would prefer to use RPG. I enjoy both languages however.

Lori Hainey
Hainey Business Systems, Inc.

Chris.Chambers@v2music.com wrote:

> OK let's get a general ball rolling:
>
> What future for COBOL programmers on the AS400? We hear a lot about JAVA and 
>C++
> lately so are we a dying breed? How long can we expect to be in gainful
> employemnt - what about cross training to RPG - and if there are any 
>programmers
> who have both skills what are the merits of RPG over COBOL and vice-versa.
>
> Bob Larkin <blarkin@wt.net> on 27/10/99 07:47:56
>
> Please respond to COBOL400-L@midrange.com
>
> To:   COBOL400-L <COBOL400-L@midrange.com>
> cc:    (bcc: Chris Chambers/London/V2 Music)
> Subject:  Welcome
>
> Welcome to our new users. I can't believe it has been so quite here.
> Doesn't anyone have anything to discuss?
> Bob
>
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