Re: Midrange Knowledge test

["Colin Williams" <colin.williams@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

James,

I usually find that most non AS400 bods have not even heard of RPG, and most
think that an AS400 is a "mainframe"??

cheers
Colin.W

----- Original Message -----
From: "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 9:22 AM
Subject: Re: Midrange Knowledge test


> tomh@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> > I don't understand - are you suggesting that it's detrimental to one's
> > employment aspirations to know RPG and COBOL?
>
> No; just advertising that knowledge in the wrong circles. ;-) That was a
> bit of advice I got from a professor who taught the one semseter of
> COBOL I took, and if COBOL has a stigma of being out-of-touch with the
> rest of the world, RPG has an even worse one. (Incidentally, I have a
> picture hanging on my office wall, a bit of "Windoze Accessory Paint"
> art that I put together about 7 or 8 years ago, after teaching myself
> enough RPG to maintain the non-MI portions of QuestView. It's a picture
> of RPG code etched into a stone tablet.)
>
> Then again, with so many developers these days being shameless
> bloatware-mongers, I kind of like being out-of-step!  :-)
>
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