Re: Anyone older than 3xx

[Portal39@xxxxxxx]

At 40 you'll be an old timer

 fiona.fitzgerald@notes.royalsun.com writes:


> Subj: Anyone older than 3xx
> Date: 07/03/2001 9:11:13 PM Eastern Daylight Time
> From:    fiona.fitzgerald@notes.royalsun.com
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> Yes, off topic - what happened to Free OS/400 ? - but being 30-plus is no
> disadvantage for sure, Joe!
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> I spent the first half of Y2K explaining to 20-somethings the "not if it's
> a century year" thing. I had the same issues when I was traing programmers
> - why do we need to do this - what's a Julian date about ....
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> OK, maybe it's good that education is more specialised, but I do
> increasingly feel that we are coding/configuring
> for the real world & being pushed for time by empire-builders with a
> short-term outlook - Thank God for SQL ....
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> I guess IT people always have the uneasy feeling of looking through a
> microscope and a telescope simultaneously, and the overview is easily lost.
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> My first job was mainly a 36 -> 400 conversion, working with engineers,
> whose stunning, meticulous professionalism impressed the heck out of me.
> Inspiring, & I still believe that software engineers have a long way to go
> to match that maturity - not conservatism, by any means, but the
> perspective of being on a truly multi-user system, & not the only car on
> the road.
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> (Forgive this rambling - it's not as though I know you guys personally.)
> Fiona
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