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A glimpse of the future (or is it the present?)


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25 minutes ago, ShaunR said:

Too obtuse for my smooth brain. You link to a COBOL forum and imply something but I have no idea what you are implying or it's relevance.

Is it a spam post? :D

Perhaps @X___ is pointing to the timestamps of the latest forum posts?

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3 hours ago, ShaunR said:

Too obtuse for my smooth brain. You link to a COBOL forum and imply something but I have no idea what you are implying or it's relevance.

I'm with you.  I just assumed it was a suggestion that LabVIEW will soon be seen, the same way COBAL is today.  Very little activity, and developers asking the void if there is any work for a thing they were an expert at not long ago.

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9 hours ago, hooovahh said:

I'm with you.  I just assumed it was a suggestion that LabVIEW will soon be seen, the same way COBAL is today.  Very little activity, and developers asking the void if there is any work for a thing they were an expert at not long ago.

Considering COBOL is over 60 years old, I think most experts have long since retired and most of the US government runs on COBOL. Just a quick and dirty example from one site...

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Finding only 156 LabVIEW jobs, and 476 COBAL jobs could be seen a couple ways.  You could use it as an example of how bad LabVIEW adoption is.  "See how there are so many more COBOL jobs than LabVIEW, and it hasn't been used in decades", or you could say the market has too many LabVIEW developers, for the number of available jobs in that area.

9 hours ago, ShaunR said:

Considering COBOL is over 60 years old, I think most experts have long since retired and most of the US government runs on COBOL. Just a quick and dirty example from one site...

I was referring to the multiple posts on that forum looking for work, and recruiters.  They either had no reply, or replies from other people also looking for work.  This post mentions using COBOL in several projects in the 2000s.

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On 10/15/2022 at 10:04 PM, X___ said:

The first post does. 😀 I remember CICS and MVS. The mainframes in the company I did my vocational education as communication electronics technician was running on this and the entire inventory, order and production automation was running on this. The terminals were mostly green phosphor displays, 80 * 25 character. I did some CICS work there, but not Cobol programming. I did however do some Tektronix VAX VMS Pascal programming on the VAX systems they also used in the engineering departments to run simulation, embedded programming and CAD on. 

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