[Info-vax] Hiring maintainers for legacy VMS systems

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <29efc57f-91a1-4294-b714-f72f29079fa8 at googlegroups.com>,
	Bob Gezelter <gezelter at rlgsc.com> writes:
> On Thursday, September 11, 2014 8:58:17 AM UTC-4, Tom Adams wrote:
>> I plan to retire in about 2 years.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Is it going to be very hard to find a programmer/analyst to maintain a few 100,000 lines of custom code, mostly Fortran, some C, some Datatrieve, some VMS command procedures?
> 
> Tom,
> 
> There are still plenty of us around who know more than simply a smattering of C++ and Linux (smile).
> 
> In my repertoire, I can count FORTRAN, BASIC, C/C++, COBOL, PL/I, various assemblers (System/360, IBM 1620, IBM 1130, PDP-11, VAX, ALPHA, x86, nVidia, 12-bit PIC, and others), plus the usual collection of command languages.
> 

Bob,
  I think he was looking for someone who wasn't right behind him in the
retirement line.  :-)

  I'm out of consideration because I'm in front of him.

bill

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