On Apr 21, 7:41 pm, "Pete Dashwood"
<dashw...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Some of us need to keep skills current and be aware of what is
marketable
> and what's not.
>
> Mindful of this, I came across the following article:
>
> http://www.networkworld.com/cgi-bin/mailto/x.cgi?pagetosend=/ex****t/h...
>
> It is about the skills that are perceived as being in decline, but it
links
> to another article about what is currently considered "hot".
>
> The comment on COBOL is interesting, and pretty much in line with what
> several posters here have expressed or implied for some time now.
>
> Pete.
> --
> "I used to write COBOL...now I can do anything."
What was previously considered dead technology is now high priced
niche technology. Back when I was writing "The Minimum You Need to
Know to Be an OpenVMS Application Developer" (covering BASIC, FORTRAN,
COBOL, C/C++ and a host of other skills) people told me I was insane.
Now when you see links like that, you see OpenVMS listed as one of the
hot niche skills.
I wonder what they will say about "The Minimum You Need to Know About
Service Oriented Architecture" showing how to hook Java browser
applets to BASIC, COBOL, and other language back ends.
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