[Info-vax] Opportunity for VSI?

[Kerry Main]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Info-vax <info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com> On Behalf Of Bill
> Gunshannon via Info-vax
> Sent: December 17, 2018 2:49 PM
> To: info-vax at rbnsn.com
> Cc: Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Info-vax] Opportunity for VSI?
> 
> 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.)
> 

I know one Customer site that only 2 weeks ago complained to me how
difficult it was to get OpenVMS Cobol programmers. 


Regards,

Kerry Main
Kerry dot main at starkgaming dot com