Re: Decided to hang it up

[Dennis <iseries@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I haven't been following this thread as closely as I might have, but I don't think the original poster has chimed in about reasons for this pushback.

Though I am loathe to support such pushback, I have seen situations where it may seem to make sense.  In particular, a programming farm on the Asian continent does all the programming work for a particular set of pharmaceutical companies.  These people know RPG/400 to some extent, and ILE  not at all.  The company has a position that introoduction of ILE to that source set introduces a wealth of support issues.  Instantly, the set of individuals who can support a particular change is reduced until training occurs - and this particular organization has no desire to retrain.  They are able to retain their staff and keep things interesting by double-teaming their responsibilities.  While  Roji may be on the PHP and RPG team, Koko  may be on the Java and RPPG team.

"Bob P. Roche" <BRoche@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I never had to program on punch cards. But i remember an older sister 
> taking classes programming on punch cards at the local community
> college. 
> Spray painted punch card wreaths every Christmas. 
>
>
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> From:
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> 04/14/2011 07:28 PM
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> Re: Decided to hang it up
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> Here is a picture of one.  This happens to be a JCL card:
>
> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/File:Punch-card-5081.jpg
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> John McKee
>
> -----Original message-----
> From: Mike Wills mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 18:30:37 -0500
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Decided to hang it up
>
> > That's what I thought you were talking about.
> >
> > Seriously though, I have never seen one or the cards that got
> punched.
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> > On Apr 14, 2011, at 5:21 PM, "Musselman, Paul"
> > <pmusselman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > I can hear the younger crowd asking, "What's a card reader?  Some
> sort 
> of credit card thing?"
> > > Paul E Musselman
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