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10 dying IT skills (No matter how good you are with these skills, you won't get a job today)
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| June 28,2009
| Linda Leung
Posted on 07/21/2009 5:31:52 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: RebelTex
readln
writeln
101
posted on
07/21/2009 10:48:50 PM PDT
by
clamper1797
(An Kenyan KGB agent could not do a better job as president)
To: gedeon3
Learn .NET and Silverlight. Nice combo right now.
To: Moonman62
You have to make the time to keep current. It isn’t easy but it is necessary in this field.
To: SeekAndFind
Good. I only heard of one of those 10 things anyway.
104
posted on
07/21/2009 11:57:56 PM PDT
by
Impy
(RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
To: Know et al
COBOL is dead, dead, dead. Yes, there are people still doing it and getting good money but it is a dead language meaning nothing new happens to it.
Many languages die: it is fine.
Currently I use .NET, C#, Silverlight, Office integration, and other techs sometimes.
Yes, I have used COBOL, JCL, SyncSort, MVS, Unix, etc. but I stay moving. This is not an industry that forgives dust on a resume.
My buddy just talked to a client today that purchased a Dell with 48 logical cores and 128GB RAM for under 25K. That, and years of it, spells death for a lot of older systems (and languages) due to mainframe licensing policies.
To: SeekAndFind
To: bamahead
I have a hard time believing this one. You have to write several pages of code in COBOL to do what you can do in one page in C or Fortran or Visual Basic....
I think it’s because, as a rule, bank managers don’t particularly like math and don’t like people who do....they’d rather rely on the old code than try to develop something better.
To: SeekAndFind
bump for the good old skills
108
posted on
07/22/2009 1:27:07 AM PDT
by
DollyCali
(Don't tell GOD how big your storm is -- Tell the storm how B-I-G your God is!you)
To: SeekAndFind
Does anyone care an iota about APL?
109
posted on
07/22/2009 1:43:42 AM PDT
by
Gondring
(Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
To: gura
I haven’t yet gone to the suspenders.
110
posted on
07/22/2009 1:46:37 AM PDT
by
Gondring
(Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
To: IronJack
LOL! Dumps, I remember reading dumps at 3 AM.
To: SeekAndFind
Linda Leung is a senior IT journalist with 20 years’ experience editing and writing news and features for online and print. She has extensive experience creating and launching news Web sites, including most recently, independent communities for customers of Cisco Systems and Microsoft. She left something off the list:
11.) Editing and writing news and features for online and print.
12.) Creating and launching news Web sites
13.) Cisco Systems
14.) Microsoft
112
posted on
07/22/2009 4:43:20 AM PDT
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(AGWT is very robust with respect to data. All observations confirm it at the 100% confidence level.)
To: IronJack; dljordan
113
posted on
07/22/2009 4:47:06 AM PDT
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(AGWT is very robust with respect to data. All observations confirm it at the 100% confidence level.)
To: SeekAndFind
6. C programming
They obviously don't think of companies with embedded systems.
To: bytesmith
Nope. As I tell my friends, never trust a computer that you can lift. :-)
115
posted on
07/22/2009 5:35:16 AM PDT
by
NCjim
("Lies have to be covered up, truth can run around naked." - Johnny Cash)
To: kenth
Reminds me of when C++ came out. The COBOL people were going to create an object-oriented version called “Add One to COBOL” :-)
116
posted on
07/22/2009 5:38:05 AM PDT
by
NCjim
("Lies have to be covered up, truth can run around naked." - Johnny Cash)
To: SpaceBar
Piece of cake, actually. It’s just a language that defines the environment in which a program runs.
117
posted on
07/22/2009 5:40:53 AM PDT
by
NCjim
("Lies have to be covered up, truth can run around naked." - Johnny Cash)
To: SeekAndFind
COBOL is dead and I piss on it's grave every time I go past it!
118
posted on
07/22/2009 5:43:11 AM PDT
by
mad_as_he$$
(Nemo me impune lacessit)
To: wireplay
Note that Windows Powershell is listed at 28th.
Not bad for a language that was only released a couple of years ago.
119
posted on
07/22/2009 5:48:05 AM PDT
by
tacticalogic
("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
To: COBOL2Java
Ever seen the MVS Book of the Month list? Great stuff.
"An Equestrian's View of Deferred Mounting"
"The Pope Speaks Out on Unit Affinity and Separation"
"Camper's Guide to the Link Pack Area"
and so on. I know that dates me - especially as I have it only in hardcopy.
120
posted on
07/22/2009 5:50:05 AM PDT
by
NCjim
("Lies have to be covered up, truth can run around naked." - Johnny Cash)
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