X___ Posted October 15, 2022 Report Share Posted October 15, 2022 https://community.openmainframeproject.org/c/cobol-technical-questions/16 Looks familiar? Quote Link to comment
Gribo Posted October 17, 2022 Report Share Posted October 17, 2022 Those who do not learn from the past are bound to repeat it. Too close for comfort. Quote Link to comment
ShaunR Posted October 17, 2022 Report Share Posted October 17, 2022 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? Quote Link to comment
JKSH Posted October 17, 2022 Report Share Posted October 17, 2022 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? Perhaps @X___ is pointing to the timestamps of the latest forum posts? Quote Link to comment
hooovahh Posted October 17, 2022 Report Share Posted October 17, 2022 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. Quote Link to comment
X___ Posted October 17, 2022 Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2022 Forgot the "dark humor" flag/emoji. Quote Link to comment
ShaunR Posted October 18, 2022 Report Share Posted October 18, 2022 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... Quote Link to comment
hooovahh Posted October 18, 2022 Report Share Posted October 18, 2022 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. Quote Link to comment
Rolf Kalbermatter Posted October 18, 2022 Report Share Posted October 18, 2022 (edited) On 10/15/2022 at 10:04 PM, X___ said: https://community.openmainframeproject.org/c/cobol-technical-questions/16 Looks familiar? 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. Edited October 18, 2022 by Rolf Kalbermatter Quote Link to comment
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