Re:Engineer – must not have experience in Node, Ruby, PHP, A...
by alerighi on Monday April 05, 2021 @07:57AM
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These systems in my country are still used a lot. Go to a store, look behind the counter and you will see Windows 10 with opened only a maximized window of a green/black terminal connected to an AS/400. I've seen it even on store opened this year! And as they tell me programmers are even well paid since more and more retire every year and the young one doesn't know these systems.
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Re:Engineer – must not have experience in Node, Ruby, PHP, A...
by dgellow on Monday April 05, 2021 @12:23PM
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The funny thing is that I'm not even that old, reading my initial comment you would think I'm talking about the 80s or 90s, but I got my experience with COBOL in 2009-2013 (not 4 years straight, I did other stuff too) when working at an insurance company. At the time almost the entire company was run from a few AS400 (and A LOT of office-people doing insurance stuff, of course).