[Info-vax] Opportunity for VSI?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/16/2018 7:47 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> You and Bill are both overlooking something when it comes to Cobol
> and Fortran jobs.
> 
> You are both wrongly assuming that dedicated programmers, based in
> western countries, will always be hired for both types of jobs.
> 
> In the case of Cobol, how much Cobol development is now done in India
> and similar places ? Supply problems there may not result in salaries
> skyrocketing (at least by western standards).

So you claim to be psychic and can read my mind and know that I did not
check information from India?

(I have checked Indian job sites before - and I believe I hinted about
iot by explicit talking about "across countries")

> In the case of Fortran, how much of the Fortran development is done by
> dedicated programmers, and how much is done by people (say researchers
> and cheap/free labour otherwise known as students) who do the development
> as part of a larger research project ?
> 
> In the case of Fortran especially, the latter type of usage is not going
> to show up on the job boards as "Help! Fortran programmer wanted!".

True.

But:
* the number of people doing scientific programming in Fortran is rather
   small compared to the number of people working full time in the IT
   industry
* the fact is rather irrelevant for the point about jobs not being
   available - if you want a full time programming job and evaluate
   Fortran, then the amount of Fortran work done by PhD students
   in Physics are irrelevant

Arne