RE: RPG TALENT--Global issue

Better yet, why don't the old hounds go out and learn the new tricks on
their own instead of feeling threatened by them.  Either that or get out
of the way....:)

Bradley V. Stone        
bvstone@taylorcorp.com
http://prairie.lakes.com/~bvstone/
"This is not a reasonable place to park?"

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim McCarthy [SMTP:twmac@mindspring.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 28, 1998 6:38 AM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      RE: RPG TALENT--Global issue
> 
> At 10:42 PM 5/27/98 -0400, you wrote:
> 
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> >Tim  what  might the market  be for that skill today?
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> 
> Don't know about your shop but most of our new code is C. Have you
> tried to
> hire an AS/400 C programmer recently? My point is not that there isn't
> a
> (huge) market for RPG programmers, but that trying to convince college
> level programmers that there's a future in legacy RPG code is a losing
> battle. Let's teach the young dogs the new tricks and maybe something
> will
> rub off on the old hounds.
> 
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