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- From: sammy@smds.com (Samuel Murphy)
- Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
- Subject: Re: >>>>>>> Most Widely Used Language?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.135059.13857@smds.com>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 13:50:59 GMT
- References: <ssimmons.714403117@convex.convex.com> <seZHlOz0BwwZ9f8wIy@transarc.com>
- Reply-To: sammy@ishmael.UUCP (Samuel Murphy)
- Organization: CHackers, Inc.
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- In article <seZHlOz0BwwZ9f8wIy@transarc.com> Erik_Brown@transarc.com writes:
- >ssimmons@convex.com (Steve Simmons) writes:
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- >> Only a few years ago, there were these Data Processing Institutes that would
- >> churn out COBOL programmers. These programmers did not necessarily have
- >> either college, engineering, or mathematic backgrounds. As a summer job
- >> 8 years ago, I worked for a company that did product development on
- >> mainframes. Most of my fellow employees were trained at these places.
- >> They were good at what they did.
- >
- >I think many institutes still do this. Whole companies exist to train
- >people to program on IBM's CICS system, still one of the most widely
- >used pieces of software available. In CICS, most (if not all)
- >development is solely in COBOL.
- >
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- With the awsome bogosity of CICS I bet you'll find a significant amount
- of assembly code being written to get these (super fast) monsters to run.
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- -Sam
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