Re: An odd thing

[John Carr <74711.77@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

RE:     Re: An odd thing


>> John said; "Hmmm..   National firm,  Recommends COBOL.... Hmmm
I wonder if they have a bunch of COBOL programmers?? .......' <<

Jon Said;   I doubt it - COBOL programmers are _very_ valuable right now - 
contract rates are skyrocketing - it's all those "obsolete" COBOL systems 
that need to be changed for Y2K so they can continue to do trivial things 
like run the airlines, insurance companies, banks, government - nothing 
important <vbg>

>>John said; "Ya know it's a big language on the AS/400.  At least 8% of 
the installed base." <<


>You missed a digit John!  The figure is much closer to 18%
>Jon (I'm bilingual!) Paris
>AD Market Support - paris@ca.ibm.com
>Phone: (416) 448-4019   -   Fax: (416) 448-4414


Jon(no H)
18% !!!???  In the other post you were talking about a GENERATOR 
to produce COBOL !!!

GOOD GOD MAN!!!   Who let this happen to OUR machine????? 
What's next?

You know we tried to show the MVS crowd what a good language was,
but RPG/370 didn't catch on.

John (with the H) (you KNOW I'm mono-lingual) Carr 
Aufweiderhoren  (I love you man, Just pulling your chain Jon)

(PS will write to you tomorrow about IFS, Its comming good) 


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