[LINK] Schwarzenegger pay plans thwarted by COBOL

[grove at zeta.org.au]

On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, Peter Bowditch wrote:

> I've got a passport and I'm sure I could get my COBOL skills up to scratch
> in no time at all. Book two sats on the plane, Roger. Sacramento has to be
> warmer than where either of us are today.

Don't expect to get much access to the source code.  IIRC, a lot of 
COBOL programmers got stuck hacking legacy systems because in many 
cases, the source code was disposed of or it was made obsolete via 
undocumented revisions.   This was of course during the Y2K crisis....


rachel

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