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In article <ut2smb$2i94f$
1@dont-email.me>,
Arne Vajh??j <
arne@vajhoej.dk> wrote: >
https://thenewstack.io/20-years-in-the-making-gnucobol-is-ready-for-industry
Well done, Mr Vahoej. It give me a vision of young men with notepads, the hats on their heads with cards reading NYHEDSPRESSE asking questions.
In my own experience... every so often I'll get an email, offering a job
that requires 10-15 years of COBOL, 5-7 years of CICS, 5 years of IBM mainframe system utilities (IDCAMS leads the list) and offering an hourly
rate I exceeded in 1988.
When I point out that inflation, alone, almost triples that rate in
today's dollars and they're looking for 10-15 years in a skill that folks decided to stop learning twenty years ago (thanks, Mr Gunshannon!) the response is, universally, 'yes, we know, but this is what the client is offering.'
DD
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