[Info-vax] Opportunity for VSI?

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 12/17/18 2:41 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> Bill Gunshannon  <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>> And, to demo even more how this method is of very little value,
>> how many jobs list Fortran and Pascal in the vacancy announcement
>> because it's just boilerplate and the guy in HR who actually wrote
>> the announcement hasn't a clue what is really needed or even what
>> a programmer is.  (Yes, I can point out ads listing COBOL, Fortran
>> and other languages where the actual work is installing PC's and
>> printers.)
> 
> Oh, absolutely.  I once applied for a job as an 8051 programmer to find out
> that it was a telephone support job.  That's the only time I have ever walked
> out of an interview.

And, all this talk of COBOL and Fortran (and yes, Pascal!) has
brought yet another thought to my head.  We still hear about
all the VMS systems out there in the wild (although, apparently,
the owners still can't reveal their existence) am I the only
one who remembers that VMS systems were most often programmed
in COBOL, Fortran and Pascal (and, at one time also Ada but as
a language that kinda faded even before VMS).  So, what happened
to all of those COBOL, Fortran and Pascal jobs?

bill
(Hint:  I would love to be a COBOL programmer on a VMS system again.
  they were great to work on and the compilers were, as you already
  know, excellent.  I did Fortran, too, but the kind of programming
  done in Fortran really doesn't interest me much any more. Think I
  spent way too much time in NAGLIB.)