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

[John Dallman]

In article <ui8nnq$995$1 at reader2.panix.com>,
cross at spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) wrote:

> If these organizations are so eager to hire programmers with
> COBOL and Fortran experience, why don't they take charge of the
> situation and provide the experience themselves?

Management short-terminism, I think. 

Incidentally, the situation for Fortran is rather different from COBOL
and PL/I. Academic computer scientists don't usually touch it, but
physicists, computational chemists and the like still use it heavily. So
there are still people coming onto the job market who know it. 

John