[Info-vax] OpenVMS async I/O, fast vs. slow

[bill]

On 11/5/2023 1:18 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 11/5/2023 1:03 PM, abrsvc wrote:
>> On Sunday, November 5, 2023 at 12:47:21 PM UTC-5, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> As a result the demand is small.
>>>
>>> It is not zero but despite the frequent "we have a problem"
>>> announcements, then it seems like they can keep and hire+train the
>>> people they need for maintenance.
> 
>> The demand these days is a little different as well.
>>
>> I am currently working with 2 clients using PL/I code.  They no
>> longer have PL/I expertise onsite and don't know how to modify the
>> existing code in one case, and don't know what the code does in the
>> other case.  Nice work for me, but it would be nice if there were
>> resources for such tasks more readily available...
> 
> These cases exist.
> 
> And you are probably not the only consultant doing that
> type of work.

True, but those numbers are going down, too.

> 
> But that does mean that it would make sense for colleges
> to spew out hundreds or thousands of people with solid
> PL/I skills.

No one says hundreds of thousands.  But if 1% of CS and CIS
students were offered a course in COBOL or Fortran or PL/I
it would provide a pool of about 2000 candidates a year.  A
little better than 0.

bill