[Info-vax] VMS Developer Job

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <mios3n$boh$1 at dont-email.me>,
	Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
> On 2015-05-10, David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>> Simon Clubley wrote:
>>> 
>>> Around here it seems to be all media/web design type companies who
>>> have open IT positions. :-(
>>> 
>>> I don't know what it's like in other countries, but it's also interesting
>>> the job adverts are (mostly) all about {x} years in a list of frameworks
>>> of the year with little emphasis apparently placed on knowing the core
>>> computer science fundamentals instead (and the transferable and universal
>>> skills which come with that core knowledge).
>>> 
>>
>> It was once declared that I could not be much of a programmer if I 
>> didn't know and use PHP ....
>>
>>:-)
> 
> Unfortunately, things have now moved on. :-)
> 
> These days, it's not enough to know the latest languages; for many
> job openings, you now have to know the latest frameworks written in
> those languages and to have {x} amount of experience in those
> frameworks as well.

Not just for modern stuff.  Look at ads for things like COBOL.
Most require extensive IBM experience and skill with JCL, CICS
and DB2 as well.  Or UNISYS COBOL and DMSII.

> 
> And BTW, those frameworks are no magic bullet; you still get silly
> bugs in them. Here's one I found in the Firefox SDK when I decided
> to update my target device and the machine I use for Firefox
> development to the latest Firefox version (now Firefox Android
> finally has the same download manager as the current desktop Firefox
> versions):
> 
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1156130
> 
> Someone appears to have changed the SDK and outright broken some
> basic SDK functionality for the Android version of Firefox.

You mean like PHP where every new version breaks the old one.  Or
Python where the move from Version 2 changed even the basic syntax
of a bunch of things rendering previous programs unusable without
a total rewrite.

bill

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